Why Did Napoleon Really Fail At Waterloo? | Battlefield Detectives

The Battle of Waterloo, perhaps the best known battle of all to a British audience, saw the final defeat of Napoleon and ushered in 40 years of peace in Europe. Napoleon was the greatest military commander since Julius Caesar and in 1815 he had literally nothing to lose - yet it was not Napoleon...

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