# 18th June 1815: Battle of Waterloo heralds the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte

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Published: 2026-06-18T02:05:06+00:00
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Combined British and Prussian military forces defeated the French, but Wellington himself said that the battle was ‘the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your ...

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