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    St.Helena 4 Rochefort 3 Waterloo 2 Paris 1 Elba     The Waterloo campaign, also known as the Belgian campaign (15 June – 8 July 1815) was fought between...
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    – 1 July) would see the French reach Paris with the Coalition forces about a day's march behind them. In the final week of the campaign (27 July) the...
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    After their defeat at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, the French Army of the North, under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte retreated in disarray...
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    week (27 July) the French army would capitulate and agree to leave Paris under a ceasefire. The Coalition armies would occupy Paris. On the 8 July the...
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    to Paris, and on that occasion he took a military view of it.— He then declared, that if ever it should be his fortune to defend Brussels, Waterloo would...
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    is the complete order of battle for the four major battles of the Waterloo campaign. L'Armée du Nord under the command of Emperor Napoleon I. Major Général...
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    Hundred Days: Waterloo campaign 390km 242miles 8 Saint Helena 7 Rochefort 6 6 Waterloo 5 5 4 4 3 2 Paris 1 Elba     The Battle of Waterloo was fought on...
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    "Waterloo" is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA, with music composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and lyrics written by Stikkan Anderson...
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  • Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon judged that rather than stay with the remnants of the army, he needed to return to Paris as quickly as possible to secure his...
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    The Waterloo Soldier is the skeleton of a soldier who died during the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. The skeleton is kept at the Memorial of Waterloo...
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    Battle of Ligny (category Waterloo campaign)
    Hundred Days: Waterloo campaign 390km 242miles 8 Saint Helena 7 Rochefort 6 Waterloo 5 4 3 2 Paris 1 Elba     The Battle of Ligny, in which French troops...
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    The Waterloo campaign commenced with a pre-emptive attack by the French Army of the North under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte. The first elements...
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    Hundred Days (redirect from 1815 campaign)
    Seventh Coalition, and includes the Waterloo Campaign and the Neapolitan War as well as several other minor campaigns. The phrase les Cent Jours (the Hundred...
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    Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    Waterloo Campaign such as the Battle of Ligny and the Battle of Issy. He was born in Dechtow in the Margraviate of Brandenburg; he was not related to...
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    "Brunswick Corps", as it is called in the order of battle for the Waterloo campaign, formed up as a discrete division in the allied reserve. Its strength...
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    role in the Waterloo Campaign. When his carriage stopped on Blackheath Hill, overlooking London, he is said to have exclaimed, "What a city to sack!" He...
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  • 497miles 18 Waterloo 17 Saint- Dizier 16 Leipzig 15 Berezina 14 Borodino 13 Wagram 12 Somosierra 11 Friedland 10 Jena 9 Austerlitz 8 Marengo 7 Cairo 6 Malta...
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  • news of Napoleon's invasion of Belgium to Wellington at the Duchess of Richmond's ball, during the Waterloo campaign (historically the bearer of the message...
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    Cavalié Mercer (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    Troop Royal Horse Artillery at the Battle of Waterloo, and as author of Journal of the Waterloo Campaign. Mercer's six-gun horse artillery troop arrived...
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    the Waterloo Campaign. He was decisively defeated by the two allied armies at the Battle of Waterloo, which then marched on Paris forcing Napoleon to abdicate...
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    Ionian Islands while his colleagues were fighting in campaigns all over Europe. Before Waterloo, his last battle engagement was sixteen years prior in...
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  • with Sharpe's Waterloo, published in the US as Waterloo) detail Sharpe's adventures in various Peninsular War campaigns over the course of 6–7 years. Subsequently...
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    forces in early June 1815 just before the start of the Waterloo Campaign and the minor campaigns of 1815. Upon assumption of the throne, Napoleon found...
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  • James Graham (British Army soldier) (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    interviewed Graham. Graham continued to serve in the Coldstream Guards after Waterloo. The 2nd Battalion advanced on Paris with the army, remaining there until...
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    Selected battles 3800km 2361miles 6 Waterloo 5 Vitoria 4 Torres Vedras 3 Køge 2 Assaye 1 Seringapatam     Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of...
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    Frederick Ponsonby (British Army officer) (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    During the Waterloo Campaign, the 12th Light Dragoons were attached to Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur's light cavalry brigade. At the Battle of Waterloo, the 12th...
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    William Howe De Lancey (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    received at the Battle of Waterloo. De Lancey's paternal ancestors were Huguenots who had emigrated from Caen, France, to America following the revocation...
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    Karl Freiherr von Müffling (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    headquarters in the Waterloo campaign, and was involved in the various controversies which centred round the events at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815...
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    song "Waterloo", which uses the battle as a metaphor for a person surrendering to love similar to how Napoleon "surrendered" [sic] at Waterloo. The Al...
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    Waterloo (18 June 1815). The Congress of Vienna soon set out to restore Europe to pre-French Revolution days. Napoleon brought political stability to...
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