The Battle of Waterloo was fought in 1815 between the British army and the French army with the Prussian army coming into the spectrum later in the day. It was the last decisive action of the Napoleonic Wars and is the most famous.
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| - The Battle of Waterloo was fought in 1815 between the British army and the French army with the Prussian army coming into the spectrum later in the day. It was the last decisive action of the Napoleonic Wars and is the most famous.
- The Battle of Waterloo took place on 18 June 1815 in the Belgian province of Waterloo. (AUDIO: The Curse of Davros) It saw the defeat of the reconstituted French imperial army of Napoléon Bonaparte by the British under the Duke of Wellington and the Prussians under Marshal Blucher. The time-manipulating Players tried to subvert this by assassinating the Duke before the battle and then issuing false orders to the Prussian reinforcements. These attempts were thwarted by the Second Doctor and his companion Serena. Serena sacrificed herself to take the shot that would have killed the Duke. The Doctor later posed as Napoleon- the two being superficially similar enough for the Doctor to pass himself off as Napoleon to the average French soldier who had never met their Emperor directly but only s
- The Battle of Waterloo is celebrated in Britain as their greatest victory over the French since the Battle of Agincourt and that time Winston Churchill gave Charles de Gaulle an exploding cigar in 1940 as a reminder how badly France had fought against the Germans. The battle marked the permanent retirement of Napoleon Bonaparte from European politics but not Eurovision as he was discover when ABBA rubbed his Corsican nose with their hit song Waterloo in 1974.
- Upon Napoleon's return to power in 1815, many states that had opposed him formed the Seventh Coalition and began to mobilise armies. Two large forces under Wellington and Blücher assembled close to the north-eastern border of France. Napoleon chose to attack in the hope of destroying them before they could join in a coordinated invasion of France with other members of the coalition. The decisive engagement of this three-day Waterloo Campaign (16–19 June 1815) occurred at the Battle of Waterloo. According to Wellington, the battle was "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life".
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- Anglo-allies: 68,000
- One Army and Napoleon's hat
- Prussians: 50,000
- Total: 118,000
- Two Armies
- * United Kingdom: 25,000 British and 6,000 King's German Legion
* Netherlands: 17,000
* Hanover: 11,000
* Brunswick: 6,000
* Nassau: 3,000
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| - the War of the Seventh Coalition
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| Date
| - 1815-06-18(xsd:date)
- 1815-06-22(xsd:date)
- 1815-07-08(xsd:date)
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| - Battle of Waterloo by William Sadler
- Let's sabre the Frogs and knock off early!
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| Casualties
| - French flee the battle. Napoleon loses his snuff box
- Anglo-allies: 17,000
* 3,500 killed
* 10,200 wounded
* 3,300 missing
Prussians: 7,000
* 1,200 killed
* 4,400 wounded
* 1,400 missing
- Allies lose a lot of boots
- Total: 24,000
- Total: 51,000
- * 28,000 killed and wounded
* 8,000 captured
* 15,000 missing
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| Result
| - Decisive Coalition victory
- Napoleon did surender
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| Campaign
| - The March away from Brooke
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- France
- French
- Brunswick
- Seventh Coalition:
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