The early 1900s caption reads: “SUPREME MOMENT AT WATERLOO—'LET THE WHOLE LINE ADVANCE!’—In this final triumph of Wellington over Napoleon, the English infantry had stood all day resisting the cannonade and the repeated charges of the French troops. At last the German army of reinforcement appeared, and Wellington, closing his telescope, commanded the whole English line to advance; it did so and swept the exhausted French from the field.” The Battle of Waterloo marked the final defeat of Napoleon. On June 22, 1815, four days after losing the conflict, Napoleon abdicated as emperor of France fo
The early 1900s caption reads: “SUPREME MOMENT AT WATERLOO—'LET THE WHOLE LINE ADVANCE!’—In this final triumph of Wellington over Napoleon, the English infantry had stood all day resisting the cannonade and the repeated charges of the French troops. At last the German army of reinforcement appeared, and Wellington, closing his telescope, commanded the whole English line to advance; it did so and swept the exhausted French from the field.” The Battle of Waterloo marked the final defeat of Napoleon. On June 22, 1815, four days after losing the conflict, Napoleon abdicated as emperor of France for the second and last time and was later exiled to St. Helena.
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