2-715-034 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Sketch of the Battle of Waterloo', (18 June 1815), 1816. Fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815. The French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by an allied British army under the Duke of Wellington, and Prussians under Field Marshal Blucher. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. From "The History of the War, from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Present Time, Vol. III", by Hewson Clarke, Esq. [T. Kinnersley, Limited, London, 1816]