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evidence: The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday , 18 June 1815 , near Waterloo in present-day Belgium , then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands .. Waterloo. Waterloo, Belgium. Netherlands. United Kingdom of the Netherlands. United Kingdom of the Netherlands. United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Belgium. Belgium. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition  : an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington , and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher , Prince of Wahlstatt .. Seventh Coalition. Seventh Coalition. Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte. Duke of Wellington. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher. Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher. French army. Army of the North ( France ). Anglo. British Army. Upon Napoleon 's return to power in March 1815 , many states that had opposed him formed the Seventh Coalition , and began to mobilize armies .. Seventh Coalition. Seventh Coalition. Wellington and Blucher 's armies were cantoned close to the north-eastern border of France .. Napoleon chose to attack them in the hope of destroying them before they could join in a co-ordinated invasion of France with other members of the coalition .. Napoleon successfully attacked the bulk of the Prussian army at the Battle of Ligny with his main force , while at the same time a portion of the French army attacked an Allied army at the Battle of Quatre Bras .. French army. Army of the North ( France ). Battle of Ligny. Battle of Ligny. Battle of Quatre Bras. Battle of Quatre Bras. Quatre Bras. Battle of Quatre Bras. Despite holding his ground at Quatre Bras , the defeat of the Prussians forced Wellington to withdraw to Waterloo .. Waterloo. Waterloo, Belgium. Quatre Bras. Battle of Quatre Bras. Napoleon sent a third of his forces to pursue the Prussians , who had withdrawn parallel to Wellington .. withdrawn parallel to Wellington. Waterloo Campaign : Ligny through Wavre to Waterloo. This resulted in the separate and simultaneous Battle of Wavre with the Prussian rear-guard .. Battle of Wavre. Battle of Wavre. Upon learning that the Prussian army was able to support him , Wellington decided to offer battle on the Mont-Saint-Jean escarpment , across the Brussels road .. Mont-Saint-Jean. Mont-Saint-Jean, Belgium. escarpment. escarpment. Brussels. Brussels. Here he withstood repeated attacks by the French throughout the afternoon , aided by the progressively arriving Prussians .. In the evening Napoleon committed his last reserves to a desperate final attack , which was narrowly beaten back .. With the Prussians breaking through on the French right flank , Wellington 's Anglo-allied army counter-attacked in the centre , and the French army was routed .. French army. Army of the North ( France ). Anglo. British Army. Waterloo was the decisive engagement of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon 's last .. Waterloo Campaign. Waterloo Campaign. Waterloo. Waterloo, Belgium. According to Wellington , the battle was `` the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life '' .. Napoleon abdicated four days later , and on 7 July coalition forces entered Paris .. Napoleon abdicated. Abdication of Napoleon ( 1815 ). The defeat at Waterloo ended Napoleon 's rule as Emperor of the French , and marked the end of his Hundred Days return from exile .. Waterloo. Waterloo, Belgium. Emperor of the French. Emperor of the French. Hundred Days. Hundred Days. This ended the First French Empire , and set a chronological milestone between serial European wars and decades of relative peace .. First French Empire. First French Empire. The battlefield is located in the municipalities of Braine-l'Alleud and Lasne , about 15 km south of Brussels , and about 2 km from the town of Waterloo .. Waterloo. Waterloo, Belgium. Braine-l'Alleud. Braine-l'Alleud. Lasne. Lasne. Brussels. Brussels. The site of the battlefield today is dominated by a large monument , the Lion 's Mound .. As this mound was constructed from earth taken from the battlefield itself , the contemporary topography of the battlefield near the mound has not been preserved .