Waterloo
Waterloo
BATTLE OF WATERLOO
The Battle of Waterloo was the final and decisive action of the Napoleonic Wars, the
wars that effectively ended French domination of the European continent and brought about
drastic changes in the political boundaries and the power balance of Europe. Fought on June
18, 1815, near Waterloo, in modern Belgium, the battle ranks as a great turning point in
European history.
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…showed last 75 words of 1469 total…So horrific was Napoleon's downfall that Waterloo became a synonym for a
crushing defeat.
The Battle of Waterloo was one of the bloodiest in modern history. During the fighting
of June 18, French casualties totaled about 40,000, British and Dutch about 15,000, and
Prussian about 7000; at one point about 45,000 men lay dead or wounded within an area of
3 sq mi. Additional thousands of casualties were suffered by both sides during the three-day
campaign that preceded the final battle.