1815 newspaper THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO Napoleon Bonaparte defeated by WELLINGTON
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1815 newspaper with an inside-page report of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO Napoleon Bonaparte defeated by Wellington and Blucher - inv # 9Q-205Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction.SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Connecticut Courant (Hartford, CT) dated August 2, 1815. with a nice inside-page account of the DEFEAT of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE at the BATTLE of WATERLOO .The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.Upon Napoleon's return to power in March 1815, many states that had opposed him formed the Seventh Coalition, and began to mobilize armies. Wellington and Blücher's armies were cantoned close to the north-eastern border of France. Napoleon chose to attack them separately in the hope of destroying them before they could join in a co-ordinated invasion of France with other members of the coalition. On 16 June Napoleon successfully attacked
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