FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Question
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Waterloo
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Tours
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the Bulge
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Verdun
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon’s French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher . The decisive battle of its age, it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon’s imperial power forever.
Detailed explanation-2: -With the Prussians breaking through on the French right flank, the Anglo-allied army repulsed the Imperial Guard, and the French army was routed. Waterloo was the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon’s last. According to Wellington, the battle was “the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life".
Detailed explanation-3: -Fought near Waterloo village, Belgium, it pitted Napoleon’s 72, 000 French troops against the duke of Wellington’s army of 68, 000 (British, Dutch, Belgian, and German soldiers) aided by 45, 000 Prussians under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Napoleon was defeated, and he was exiled for the final time.
Detailed explanation-4: -Napoleon was defeated at the battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. He was defeated by a coalition of nations consisting of Prussia, Britain and the Netherlands.