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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon I was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition .
Present at the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington had 71,257 soldiers available, 3,866 officers and 65,919 other ranks. By the end of the day's fighting the army had suffered 16,084 casualties (3,024 killed, 10,222 wounded and 2,838 missing) a loss of 24.6%.
The Waterloo campaign (15 June – 8 July 1815) was fought between the French Army of the North and two Seventh Coalition armies, an Anglo-allied army and a Prussian army. Initially the French army had been commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, but he left for Paris after the French defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
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Stele to the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot at the battlefield of Waterloo. The 27th Regiment served throughout the Napoleonic Wars including in Egypt where it formed part of Sir Ralph Abercromby's force that fought the Battle of Alexandria against the French in March 1801, the 2nd Battalion formed part of the garrison of that city after its capture.
Veteran support charity Waterloo Uncovered will carry out a targeted excavation in September after a ‘rare’ discovery in 2022. Archaeological dig at site of Battle of Waterloo to find remains ...
The regiment was sent to Stralsund in Swedish Pomerania 1810 and remained there until the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815: its only involvement at Waterloo was capturing Cambrai in the aftermath of the battle. [23] The regiment was sent to South Africa in 1819 for service in the Fifth Xhosa War. [24]
The 3rd Prussian Brigade, however, which had continually formed the vanguard of the I Corps since the Battle of Waterloo, was too much exhausted by its efforts during the previous day and night, to attempt seriously to molest the d'Erlon Corps during its retreat; a circumstance of which the latter failed not to take advantage.