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Battle of Waterloo

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The last battle of Napoleon Bonaparte on 18 June 1815.

The battle ended with the defeat of Napoleon by the Allied troops under the English general the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesey) and the Prussian field marshal Blücher. This ended the period of the Hundred Days.

Traveljournal 1825–1827

  • Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

Cite as: Battle of Waterloo. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/keywords/gfa-keywords-8733, viewed on 7 June 2025.

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Ney’s cavalry charge at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 (panoramic painting by Louis Dumoulin, 1912)