What a great story for #WaterlooDay. Honourable bandsman in an 1821 painting has been identified as #ThomasJames, 1 of 9 Black soldiers to receive the #Waterloo medal, & of many to serve…

High level view of a large model of the Battle of Waterloo showing miniature troop formations in terrain.

Happy #WaterlooDay to all who celebrate. This is a scale model of the battle produced by British Army captain John Seaborn in 1830, at 1:2 figure scale; each individual soldier is about 10mm high. Siborne envisioned it as a commercial attraction for paying punters. (It was a flop.)

El #18Junio de 1815
Napoleón Bonaparte y su ejército 🇫🇷 son derrotados en la Batalla de Waterloo
Inicia la caída del Gran Imperio Napoleónico 🌎🐎👑
#FelizMiércoles
#BatailledeWaterloo #Waterloo #WaterlooDay #Napoleón
#OtrebordmXCultura

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a group of people standing in a room with the words triumphant music plays on the bottom Alt: The Duke of Wellington enters the Duchess of Richmond's Ball on the eve of the battle of Waterloo; he takes off his cape dramatically, whilst ' triumphant music' plays...

Before I lock myself away again, I'm delighted to be actually lecturing this evening on Irish soldiers at Waterloo... for the very 1st time on the actual anniversary 😀Happy 210th #WaterlooDay folks!

It's #waterlooday! Like everyone, we'll be celebrating ABBA's winning entry in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.

It’s #WaterlooDay, commemorating Battle of Waterloo fought #OnThisDay 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (now in Belgium), marking end of Napoleonic Wars. Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library has 1816 8th edition of “A visit to Flanders, in July, 1815, being chiefly an account…/👇

"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." (Wellington)

⚔️ #OTD in #History 18 June 1815, at the Battle of #Waterloo, #Napoleon and France were defeated by British forces under #Wellington and Prussian forces under #Blucher. #WaterlooDay

It wasn't Grouchy's fault.

#WaterlooDay

Prussian Grenadiers

Prussian Reserve Infantry

Prussian artillery battery

Old "Vorwarts!" himself, Field Marshall Blücher

Happy #WaterlooDay!
Here's your reminder who won the battle.

The Swedish pop group ABBA.

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