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'The Battle of Waterloo, 1815', (c1850s).'The Battle of Waterloo, 1815', (c1850s). French cavalry charging British infantry, 18 June 1815. The final and decisive battle of the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo marked the end of the French First Empire. After his defeat by the British and Prussians commanded respectively by Wellington and Blucher, Napoleon was exiled to St Helena, where he died in 1821. Colour plate taken from the book "Pictures of English History", George Routledge And Sons, (London, New York, c1850).
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