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Battle of Waterloo
The French Cuirassiers charging the Scottish Highlanders
![Lion Mount](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Lion-Mount-Monument--bw--96-15-11-F.jpg)
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.
![DStorming the Bastille](images/web images/waterloo 2020/3--Bastille-96-15-11-F.jpg)
Storming the Bastille - 1789
![Wiff of Grapeshot](images/web images/waterloo 2020/7-Grapeshot-2-bw--96-16-10-F.jpg)
Napoleon's 'whiff of grapeshot' 1795
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![Flying Ambulance](images/web images/waterloo 2020/4--Ambulance--96-14-7-F.jpg)
Larrey's Flying Ambulance
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![Larrey](images/web images/waterloo 2020/6-Larrey--96-14-8-F.jpg)
Dominique Jean Larrey in 1804 Larrey in later middle age
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![Marie Antoinette](images/web images/waterloo 2020/6a-Marie-Antoinette-2a--96-17-8-F.jpg)
Marie Antoinette ~ Queen of France King Louis XVI Marie Antoinette ~ execution
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![Napoleon](images/web images/waterloo 2020/8-Napoleon-bw--96-10-8-F.jpg)
General Napoleon Bonapart
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![Josephine](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Josephine-96-16-8-F.jpg)
Josephine - Napoleon's first wife Josephine at Chateau de Malmaison
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![Larry treating Napoleon](images/web images/waterloo 2020/2-Larrey-tending-Napoleon-bw3--96-14-9-F.jpg)
Larrey treating Napoleon, after he had been kicked by his horse in Egypt
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![Battle of Pyramids](images/web images/waterloo 2020/9-Battle-pyramids2---96-16-10-F.jpg)
Napoleon at the Battle of the Pyramids
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![Napoleon Emperor France](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Coronation-Napoleon--bw2--96-17-10-F.jpg)
Napoleon crowning himself Emperor of France 1804
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![Marie2](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Marriage-Marie-L-Napoleon-96-16-8-F.jpg)
Napoleon & Marie Louise wedding at the Louve 2 April 1810 Marie Louise Bonapart
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![Napoleon retreat Moscow](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Retreat-Moscow--N4--96-16-9-F.jpg)
Napoleon led his army out of burning Moscow - 1812
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![Larrey2](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Retreat-Moscow-96-16-8-F.jpg)
Napoleon and Larrey Larrey attending wounded during retreat from Moscow
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![Marshal Ney](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Ney-retreat-Moscow2---96-10-9-F.jpg)
Marshal Ney with rearguard retreat from Moscow
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![Napoleon Elba](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Napoleon-Elba-9---96-16-8-F.jpg)
Napoleon at Fountainbleau Napoleon's Villa on Elba
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![Louis XVIII](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Louis-XVIII--96-6-6-F.jpg)
King Louis XVIII
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![Napoleon at Laffrey](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Napoleon-Laffrey-2a--bw--96-15-9-F.jpg)
Napoleon confronting the Regiment at Laffrey
"Soldiers of the 5th, will you fire on your Emperor?"
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![British soldiers](images/web images/waterloo 2020/British-soldiers2-96-17-8-F.jpg)
British private British officer French officer French fusilier
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![Supply wagon](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Wagon-96-16-7-F.jpg)
Supply wagons with wives and baggage
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![Gneisenau Blucher](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Gneisenau-Blucher--96-14-8-F.jpg)
Lieutenant-General Count von Gneisenau Field Marshal Gebhard von Blucher
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![Wellington Napoleon](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Wellington-Napoleon-96-14-8-F.jpg)
Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesly, Duke of Wellington ~ Emperor Napoleon I
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![Ney Soult](images/web images/waterloo 2020/ney-soult2--300h-471w-F2.jpg)
Marshal Michel Ney
'Bravest of the Brave' Marshal Nicolas Soult
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![Berthier d'Erlon](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Berthier-d'Erlon--96-15-8-F.jpg)
Marshal Louis Alexandre
Berthier Jean Baptiste Drouet, Comte
d'Erlon
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![Shrapnel](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Shrapnel-battery--96-16-8-F.jpg)
Lieutenant-General Henry Schrapnel ~ French Battery
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![Murat](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Murat-at-Jena-2a---96-14-10-F.jpg)
Marshal Joachim
Murat leading a charge during the Battle of Jena 1806
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![Dutchess Richmond's ball](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Dutchess-Ball-6-r---bw--96-16-8-F.jpg)
The Duke of Wellington enters the Duchess of Richmond's Ball
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![Quatre Bras](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Battle_of_Quatre_Bras_map-96-350-529w-F.jpg)
Battle of Quatre Bras, 16 June 1815 - situation at 3:00 p.m.
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![Bussy windmill](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Windmill-2-96-16-10-F.jpg)
Blucher and Wellington meeting on top of the Bussy windmill
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![Prince of Orange](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Prince-of-Orange--96-16-8-F.jpg)
Prince Willem of Orange
("Slender Billy") ~ Prince of Orange at Quatre Bras
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![Black Watch](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Black-Watch-1--bw---96-16-8-F.jpg)
The 42nd Highlanders (Black Watch) at Quatre Bras
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![Ligny](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Ligny-96-400-568-F.jpg)
The Battle of Ligny, 16 June 1815
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![Blucher under horse](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Blucher-horse-3--bw--96-16-7-F.jpg)
Blucher lay under his horse while his adjutant tried to rescue him
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![Wellington's women](images/web images/waterloo 2020/wellington-women4-269h-600w-F2.jpg)
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](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Battle_of_Waterloo-map96-424-600-F.jpg)
Battle of Waterloo ~ 18 June 1815
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![Grouchy Bulow Orange](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Grouchy-Bulow-Orange-2---96-16-7-F.jpg)
Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy, Fredrich Wilhelm von Bulow, Prince Willem of Orange
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![Hougoumont](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Hougourmont--bw---96-16-9-F.jpg)
French Assault on Hougoumont
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![Cuirassiers](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Cuirassiers-1a--bw--96-16-9-F.jpg)
French
Cuirassiers
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![Royal Scots Greys](images/web images/waterloo 2020/92nd-&-Scotts-Greys--bw--96-16-9-F.jpg)
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 square](images/web images/waterloo 2020/British-square--96-17-7-F.jpg)
British infantry square
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![La Haye Sainte](images/web images/waterloo 2020/La-Haye-Sainte---96-16-9-F.jpg)
The French take La Haye Sainte
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![Plancenoit](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Plancenoit--bw--96-15-10-F.jpg)
The Prussians retaking Plancenoit
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![Line wil advance](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Line-advance--bw--96-16-9-F.jpg)
Wellington -
"The line will advance"
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![Old Guard](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Olds-Guard--bw--96-13-8-F.jpg)
The Old Guards' last stand
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![Blucher Wellington meet](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Blucher-Wellington---96-15-9-F.jpg)
Blucher meets up with Wellington at La Belle Alliance
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![Napoleon escapes](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Napoleon-escapes--96-15-8-F.jpg)
Napoleon took to his horse, when his coach was blocked at Grenappe
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![St Helena](images/web images/waterloo 2020/St-Helena-bw--96-12-8.jpg)
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
![That's life](images/web images/waterloo 2020/Platform2a-96-330h-425w-F.jpg)
Likely lad:
'One of my ancestors was killed at Waterloo.'
Lovely lady:
'Really? How fascinating, which platform? '
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![La Haye Sainte](images/web images/waterloo 2020/La-Haye-Sainte-96-15-7-F.jpg)
Waterloo, August 1978 - La Haye Sainte ~
photo by Editor
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The complete historical Digest can be downloaded as a FREE e-book on Smashwords.
Available on iPad / iBooks, Kindle, Nook, Sony, & most e-reading apps including Stanza & Aldiko.
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