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Battle of Waterloo
The French Cuirassiers charging the Scottish Highlanders

Waterloo - Lion's Mound Memorial ~ completed in 1825
Modern re-enactment of the battle
The site of the battlefield is dominated by a large monument, the
Lion's Mound. In 1820 the Netherlands
King William I ordered the construction of this monument on the spot where it was believed his son,
Prince of Orange, had been wounded.

Storming the Bastille - 1789

Napoleon's 'whiff of grapeshot' 1795
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Larrey's Flying Ambulance
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Dominique Jean Larrey in 1804 Larrey in later middle age
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Marie Antoinette ~ Queen of France King Louis XVI Marie Antoinette ~ execution
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General Napoleon Bonapart
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Josephine - Napoleon's first wife Josephine at Chateau de Malmaison
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Larrey treating Napoleon, after he had been kicked by his horse in Egypt
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Napoleon at the Battle of the Pyramids
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Napoleon crowning himself Emperor of France 1804
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Napoleon & Marie Louise wedding at the Louve 2 April 1810 Marie Louise Bonapart
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Napoleon led his army out of burning Moscow - 1812
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Napoleon and Larrey Larrey attending wounded during retreat from Moscow
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Marshal Ney with rearguard retreat from Moscow
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Napoleon at Fountainbleau Napoleon's Villa on Elba
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King Louis XVIII
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Napoleon confronting the Regiment at Laffrey
"Soldiers of the 5th, will you fire on your Emperor?"
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British private British officer French officer French fusilier
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Supply wagons with wives and baggage
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Lieutenant-General Count von Gneisenau Field Marshal Gebhard von Blucher
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Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesly, Duke of Wellington ~ Emperor Napoleon I
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Marshal Michel Ney
'Bravest of the Brave' Marshal Nicolas Soult
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Marshal Louis Alexandre
Berthier Jean Baptiste Drouet, Comte
d'Erlon
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Lieutenant-General Henry Schrapnel ~ French Battery
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Marshal Joachim
Murat leading a charge during the Battle of Jena 1806
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The Duke of Wellington enters the Duchess of Richmond's Ball
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Battle of Quatre Bras, 16 June 1815 - situation at 3:00 p.m.
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Blucher and Wellington meeting on top of the Bussy windmill
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Prince Willem of Orange
("Slender Billy") ~ Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras
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The 42nd Highlanders (Black Watch) at Quatre Bras
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The Battle of Ligny, 16 June 1815
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Blucher lay under his horse while his adjutant tried to rescue him
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Ladies in the Duke of Wellington's life
[left] Lady Frances Wedderburn-Webster, the Duke wrote her a number of letters during the Waterloo campaign.
[centre] Lady Shelley, a close friend of Wellington for 40 years.
[right] Wellington's wife, Duchess of Wellington, nee Kitty Pakenham
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Battle of Waterloo ~ 18 June 1815
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Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy, Fredrich Wilhelm von Bulow, Prince Willem of Orange
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French Assault on Hougoumont
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French
Cuirassiers
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92nd Highlanders charging with the Royal Scots Greys cavalry
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* Colonel Sir William de Lancey, * Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, * Major-General Sir William Ponsonby
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British infantry square
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The French take La Haye Sainte
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The Prussians retaking Plancenoit
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Wellington -
"The line will advance"
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The Old Guards' last stand
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Blucher meets up with Wellington at La Belle Alliance
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Napoleon took to his horse, when his coach was blocked at Grenappe
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A View of the Town and Island of St Helena
Copper engraving by Mr Thornton dated 1790
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That's Life - in London

Likely lad:
'One of my ancestors was killed at Waterloo.'
Lovely lady:
'Really? How fascinating, which platform? '
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Waterloo, August 1978 - La Haye Sainte ~
photo by Editor
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