Title

View from Mont St. Jean of The Battle of Waterloo...1815', (c1816).

Caption

'View from Mont St. Jean of The Battle of Waterloo at the commencement of the grand Charge made on the French at 7 o clock in the Evening of the 18th June 1815', (c1816). View from behind the British lines, with Wellington prominent among his officers in the foreground. The Battle of Waterloo was fought near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

Date

1815

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F05_007

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

134,4Mb (8,7Mb) / 28,0in x 18,6in / 8400 x 5592 (300dpi)

Keywords

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