The Battle of Waterloo
was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815,
near Waterloo in present-day Belgium,
then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-allied army under the command of the
Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher.






Upon
Napoleon's return to power in March 1815,
many states that had opposed him formed the Seventh Coalition and began to mobilize 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.
Waterloo was the decisive engagement of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last.
According to Wellington,
the battle was "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life".^[10]
The defeat at Waterloo ended Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French,
and marked the end of his Hundred Days return from exile.




Waterloo was a
decisive battle in more than one sense.
Every generation in Europe,
up to the outbreak of the First World War,
looked back at Waterloo as the
turning point that dictated the course of subsequent world history.
In retrospect,
it was seen as the event that ushered in an era characterised by
relative peace,
material prosperity
and technological progress.^[178]
The battle definitively ended the series of wars that had convulsed Europe,
and involved many other regions of the world,
since the French Revolution of the early 1790s.
It also ended the First French Empire and the political and military career of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the greatest commanders and statesmen in history.^[ab]
It was followed by almost half a century of international peace in Europe;
no further major conflict occurred until the Crimean War.
Changes to system of European states,
as refashioned after Waterloo,
included the formation of the Holy Alliance of reactionary governments intent on repressing revolutionary and democratic ideas, and the reshaping of the former Holy Roman Empire into a German Confederation increasingly marked by the political dominance of Prussia.
The bicentenary^[179] of Waterloo has prompted renewed attention to the geopolitical^[180] and economic^[181] legacy of the battle and the century of relative transatlantic peace^[182] which followed.




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