The bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo on Thursday is being commemorated across Britain this month, with hundreds of receptions, speeches, bonfires, museum exhibitions, TV and radio programs ...

The cratered cuirass belonged to 23-year-old Antoine Fauveau, a cuirassier fighting for Napoleon’s army during the Battle Of Waterloo. Twitter/@InteresChannel ...

Waterloo laid the groundwork for Nato and the United Nations. Only 36% of Wellington’s army were actually British, ... Then there was the 50,000 strong Prussian army ...

Estimates vary on how many died at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815, but the number runs into the thousands. Many were buried in mass graves that were looted, plundered for bones for sugar ...

On Tuesday however, everyone pretty much saw the same thing in a video that was posted online – it was a cuirass or breast plate that had been worn by a 23-year-old cuirassier François-Antoine ...

The battle of Waterloo stopped Napoleon and made a hero of the Duke of Wellington. But historian Peter Hofschroer tells Liane Hansen that a scale model of the battle made by one Lt. William ...

Waterloo & Beyond: 5 Mistakes That ... He also underestimated how far away the Prussian forces of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher were from Waterloo—these forces would arrive by the late afternoon.

The British were fighting alongside the Prussian army, who had recovered and regrouped after their retreat at the battle of Ligny two days earlier. The allied armies outnumbered the French, with ...

The Battle of Waterloo, as it happened on June 18, ... here and there a burning homestead,” recalls one Prussian officer. ... At one point the Prince mistakes French cuirassiers for his own ...

The Kaiser was to recall the Prussian victory at Waterloo before World War I, and the two Iron Crosses won by Adolf Hitler in that war, for example, were both stamped with the talismanic date ...