There was much to excite the public imagination between March and July 1815. The drama ... of inspiration to the arts for decades to come. In the ten years after Waterloo, exhibitions at London ...

What did the Battle of Waterloo, fought 200 years ago on June 18, 1815, really look like ... book and in an exhibition at Somerset House, an arts center in London, from June 12 through Aug ...

In the bicentenary anniversary of Waterloo, a panel of LSE historians reflect on the legacy of Napoleon's defeat. The panellists discuss the political and artistic aftermath of Waterloo as well as the ...

Historians estimate that more than 20,000 soldiers were killed at Waterloo, 12 miles south of Brussels, on June 18, 1815 when mainly Anglo-Dutch allied troops commanded by the Duke of Wellington ...

Tens of thousands of people have been gathering in the Belgian countryside over the last week to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. The bloody battle of June 18 ...

Waterloo cements our dominance of the seas ... over dark masses…accompanied by the rattling of drums.” Uniforms in 1815 are bright and colourful. They’re not designed for camouflage but ...

He was one of the thousands who fell on Sunday, June 18, 1815, at the bloodbath in Belgium we know as the Battle of Waterloo. It is one of history's most famous battles. Astonishingly, there are ...

This got Genge thinking about the 1815 Battle of Waterloo. In April of that year, around two months before the famed June battle, Mount Tambora on Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island underwent a ...