Battle of Waterloo (Napoleonic Age)

The 'Battle of Waterloo was one of the last major battles of the War of the Seventh Coalition, and was also its most decisive. Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte, fresh off of his victories at Quartre Bras and Ligny (the latter of which resulted in the near-destruction of the Prussian army), brought his army to bear against a weakened force under the Duke of Wellington and defeated him in detail. Napoléon's success at this battle effected the destruction of two Coalition armies, and significantly bolstered his position both as newly-returned Emperor in France and within Europe as a whole. Napoléon's stunning success here would soon lead to the Peace of Prague, which is often regarded as the starting point of the Napoleonic Age.