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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...