Battle Of Waterloo: The Day That Napoleon Fell | Napoleon: The Man Who Would Rule Europe

During his enforced exile on the island of Elba he busied himself building forts and bridges and winning the support of the local population and making plans for a return to France. But there was to be no glorious ending to the tale - it ended in spectacular and bloody failure in June 1815, on the...

48 min - History - Timeline - World History Documentaries

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