The Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815) was the last major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), fought by a French army under the Emperor Napoleon I (Emperor from 1804 to 1814; 1815) against two armies of the Seventh Coalition.
Waterloo ended Napoleon’s career and the First French Empire and is often considered one of the most important battles in history.
The decisive Battle of Waterloo took place between the towns of Mont-Saint-Jean and Waterloo, in what is now Belgium, then part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), being the last engagement with Napoleon I. The French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon I (strength 70 000) was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition(strength 120 000). One was a British-led force with units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of field marshal Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.
The other comprised three corps of the Prussian army under Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. The battle was known contemporaneously as the Battle of Mont Saint-Jean in France (after the hamlet of Mont-Saint-Jean) and La Belle Alliance in Prussia (« the Beautiful Alliance »; after the inn of La Belle Alliance)
