Thursday marks the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. For the British, it was a famous, but costly victory, as we're reminded by author Bernard Cornwell: Two hundred ...
NATO soldiers participate in Battle of Waterloo anniversary at the NATO Resolute Support Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 18, 2015. British and coalition troops gathered at the NATO ...
It might be 200 years since the Battle of Waterloo on Thursday, but those nine hours of bloodshed on a field near the Belgian town of Waterloo changed the course of history. It all began on June 18, ...
WATERLOO, Belgium — To the victor go the spoils: So Waterloo became synonymous with Napoleon’s demise, even if the worst of the battle never happened there. Ignoring the bloodied grounds of nearby ...