There was no denying that the Battle of Waterloo had been catastrophic ... but they were soundly defeated at Jena; Napoleon’s peace treaty of Tilsit with Russia and Prussia followed.

Two months before Napoleon's historic defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused heavy rains ...

Yet this movie almost certainly will overlook a key detail: The fascinating Frenchman’s defeat was less about battlefields than it was about economics. Napoleon lost everything because of a ...

He planned to drive a wedge between the British and the Prussians, and defeat them before the Austrians and the Russians could arrive. Napoleon raised an army, and marched toward Waterloo.

Without it, Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo would not have been possible. “If the French had broken through at Quatre Bras, they could have inflicted a major defeat on Wellington’s army ...

Waterloo, in June 1815 ... an alliance and committed themselves to raising 150,000 men in order to defeat Napoleon. The only chance Bonaparte had of causing this alliance to fail was to prevent ...

‘The Exile’s Departure’ courtesy of: Torre Abbey Historic House and Art Gallery, Torquay, copyright Torbay Council. Following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo (1815) Napoleon Bonaparte ...

When Napoleon was defeated (firstly at Leipzig in 1813 and then at Waterloo in 1815), the German princes broke this promise. The German princes did not feel long-lasting reform was necessary for ...

Or he can gamble and try and defeat the ... win the campaign. Waterloo could have been won, but the war would have been lost anyway. With all of Europe against him, Napoleon saw the futility ...