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John M asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

want to know about Napoleon/ battle of Waterloo.Which army or country defeated the french?

Did not listen in history class.I thought the russians defeated Napoleon.Did they defeat him or was it the British at Waterloo.Where is Waterloo located. If the Russians did not defeat him at waterloo,When and where did the Russians defeat Napoleon

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Waterloo is in Belgium. The Duke of Wellington had his British troops, and the King's Germans (King William's grandfather had been German), and some Belgian and Dutch troops. The Prussians were on their way, and the battle might have gone the other way if they hadn't shown up at the last.

    Napoleon had been defeated in his Russian campaign three years earlier. He was exiled twice, the first time between the two. Waterloo was, to overstate the matter a little, the end of a brief comeback attempt.

  • 1 decade ago

    Napoleon was defeated at the battle of Waterloo by an allied army (British, Dutch, Belgian, Germans) under the command of the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian army under the command of Blucher.

    Waterloo is in Belgium and at the time of the battle was part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

    The Russians defeated Napoleon in Russia although disease, desertion, starvation, and the cold killed more soldiers than the Russians. The Russians also played a major part in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814.

  • 1 decade ago

    Russians defeated Napoleon at Borodino.

    The British and Prussians defeated Napoleon at Waterloo which is in Belgium

  • 1 decade ago

    The British and the Prussians defeated Napoleon. The Russian winter and troops defeated Napoleon at an earlier battle.

    Waterloo is in Belgium.

    "They consisted of a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher, and an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington. "

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  • 1 decade ago

    Napoleons original defeat was the result of his loss in Russia in 1812. Having failed to defeat the Russians, Napoleon began his retreat from Moscow on October 19th, and his army was already at less than half strength. They attempted to retreat along a different path than they had followed on the invasion to gain more access to plundered supplies, but were defeated by the Russians at Maloyaroslavets on October 24th, which forced them to retreat along a path which had already been largely destroyed by their advance. Their problems grew worse when it started snowing in November, but they were already leaving Russia with as a defeated army before winter started. The Russians inflicted addtitional defeats on the French at Krasnoi (November 15-18) and at the Battle of Berezina (November 26-29). The following year, the Russians chased him back to Paris, and other countries that Napoleon had conquered (Like Austria and Prussia) rose up and joined them on the way, winning a major victory at Liepzieg in October of 1813. On March 31 1814 Tsar Alexander I entered Paris at the head of the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian armies. Napoleon was forced to abdicate, and then was exiled. He escaped and regained control of France in 1815, and was defeated by the British and Prussians at Waterloo. Even had he won, the Russian and Austrian armies were on the way, and there is no way Napoleon's return to power could have been sucessful.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Wellington The conflict of Waterloo, fought on 18 June 1815, replaced into Napoleon Bonaparte's final conflict. His defeat positioned an exceedingly final end to his rule as Emperor of the French. The conflict of Waterloo additionally marked the tip of the era regular because of the fact the Hundred Days, which began in March 1815 after Napoleon's return from Elba, the place he have been exiled after his defeats on the conflict of Leipzig in 1813 and the campaigns of 1814 in France. After Napoleon returned to means, many international locations which had till now resisted his rule began to gather armies to oppose him. The crucial armies of Napoleon's warring parties have been commanded by making use of the united kingdom's Duke of Wellington, and Prussia's Gebhard von Blücher. those armies have been near to France's north-east frontier, and Napoleon chosen to attack them quite than wait for them to circulate into France.

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