Battle of Waterloo

Battle of Waterloo
Part of the Hundred Days
Wellington at Waterloo by Robert Alexander Hillingford.
Date 18 June 1815 Location Waterloo, present-day Walloon Brabant in Belgium south of Brussels Result Decisive Coalition victory
Belligerents
French Empire	Seventh Coalition: United Kingdom  Prussia United Provinces Hanover Nassau Brunswick
Commanders and leaders
Napoleon Bonaparte	Duke of Wellington  Gebhard von Blücher
Strength
72,000 [1]	Anglo-allies: 68,000 [1] Prussians: 50,000 [2]
Casualties and losses
25,000 killed and wounded 7,000 captured 15,000 missing[3]	15,000 British and allies killed and wounded 7,000 Prussians killed and wounded [3] Wellington's army: 3,500 dead; 10,200 wounded; 3,300 missing. Blücher's army: 1,200 dead; 4,400 wounded; 1,400 missing.

The Battle of Waterloo was a battle that was fought between the French on one side and the British and the Prussians on the other.

Napoleon Bonaparte was Emperor of France and had started and lost the Napoleonic Wars. He had built an empire that stretched from Spain to the Russian border. Defeated at the Battle of Leipzig and elsewhere, he accepted exile on the island of Elba in 1814.

In February 1815, he returned to France and again took control of the French Army. He attacked his enemies in what is now Belgium and was defeated at Waterloo. It was the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Hofschröer, Peter 1999. 1815: The Waterloo Campaign. The German Victory. vol 2, London: Greenhill Books, ISBN 978-1853673689
2. ↑ Chesney, Charles C. 1907. Waterloo Lectures: a study of the campaign Of 1815. London: Longmans, Green. ISBN 1-4286-4988-3
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Barbero, Alessandro 2005. The Battle: a new history of Waterloo. Atlantic Books, 419/20. ISBN 1-84354-310-9