✦ History

Part of Napoleonic Wars, Hundred Days

Battle of Waterloo

June 18, 1815 · Waterloo, near Brussels

Result Coalition victory

Defeat of Napoleon by a British-led allied army under Wellington and a Prussian army under Blücher near Brussels. It ended his return from exile and the Napoleonic Wars.

On the map Contemporaries

French Empire and allies

Coalition

France
United Kingdom
Kingdom of Prussia
Netherlands
Kingdom of Hanover
Napoleon Emperor of the French, Commanded the French army Michel Ney Marshal, Led the French cavalry charges Jean-de-Dieu Soult military commander Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon military commander
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Field Marshal, Commanded the allied army Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher Field Marshal, Commanded the Prussian army August Neidhardt von Gneisenau military commander Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten military commander William II of the Netherlands military commander Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz military commander Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey military commander Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
68,265c. 72,000
Casualties
25,000c. 42,000
Captured
c. 7,000
Missing
c. 10,000
Guns
266c. 246
Guns lost
220c. 216
Strength
118,000–120,000c. 120,000
Casualties
24,000c. 23,000
Missing
c. 4,000
Guns
196c. 288

Units

Army of the North (1792–1795) Armée du Nord (1815) Strength 73,000 Ney's left wing (1815) 2nd Army Corps (France) I Corps (Grande Armée) III Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée) IV Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée) VI Corps (Grande Armée) 1st Infantry Division (France) 84th Infantry Regiment (France)
Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine Strength 50,000 Wellington's Anglo-allied army (1815) Strength 68,000 I Corps (United Kingdom) II Corps (United Kingdom) 4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) 5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) 1st Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom) O Battery (The Rocket Troop) Royal Horse Artillery

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