Battle of Waterloo
battle · 1815 AD
Battle of Waterloo, a battle recorded 1815 AD: its site mapped, cited to 1 source, on an interactive historical map you can move through time.
View Battle of Waterloo on the map →
At a glance
- Kind
- battle
- Date
- 18 June 1815 AD
- War
- Napoleonic Wars
- Side 1
- Seventh Coalition — led by Duke of Wellington, Gebhard von Blücher
- Side 2
- France — led by Napoleon, Michel Ney
- Result
- Coalition victory; the end of the Napoleonic Wars
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1815 AD | — | high confidence | no observation date recorded | — |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century, (2007)