The Battle of Waterloo is seen as one of the most significant military campaigns in European history and put an end to a struggle for power on the continent that had raged for more than a decade.

Batalla de Waterloo - Jan Willem Pieneman La bataille de Waterloo (1824, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) de Jan Willem Pieneman (1779-1853) Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

The course of British history could have been altered if a horse hadn’t been distracted by the smell of vegetables in a Belgian garden. It might sound ludicrous, but could it be true? The horse ...

We still have the map with his notes on it. What he always looked for, if he was going to fight a defensive battle ... at Waterloo on June 18, 1815. Photograph by Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...