French 1815, German 1914

 This is my first time. How could France's victory in Waterloo make them lose in 1914?

From Quatre Bras to Treaty of Namur
On June 16, 1815 Marshal Ney, with part of D'Erlon's I Corps, defeated the Allied army, led by Wellington, at Quatre Bras inflicting 21,000 casualties to his 6,000 casualties. Also, on the same day, with the other part of D’Erlon’s I Corps, Napoleon destroyed Blucher’s Army at Ligny, inflicting 26,000 more casualties to his 4,500 casualties. Despite this, Wellington’s and elements of Blucher’s Armies managed to combine at Waterloo due to French exhaustion. Even though they combined forces, they could get no more than 76,500 troops for battle while Napoleon could muster 75,000 men. Napoleon gave battle early in the morning on June 18, 1815 and captured the Mont-Saint-Jean escarpment. He could not capture Hougoumont but inflicted a defeat so great (about 15,000 to his 6,500) that the position was no longer tenable and Wellington ordered a retreat from Hougoumont. On Napoleon’s flank, Grouchy manages to destroy Blucher’s army and leaves Blucher with only 3,200 men when he joined up with Wellington. Grouchy managed to link up with Napoleon, giving Napoleon 25,000 much needed men and 76 cannons. With those reinforcements, Napoleon managed to destroy Wellington’s and Blucher’s army at Waterloo and march on to Brussels. The Coalition, except Britain, voted to a peace treaty because they did not want to get invaded again by Napoleon. The Allies and Napoleon then went to Namur and discussed the peace terms. These were the terms:

 1.)   1.   Napoleon shall be recognized as the legitimate ruler of France and no other government shall be able to change  that without the support of the French people.

      2. A cease-fire shall occur immediately after the ratification of the terms.

      3. The ex-King Louis XIII shall be tried in France under a fair court and shall be punished by the French people according to his crimes.

            4. The French shall pay half of the costs of reparations for all the invaded Allied powers. Likewise, the Allies shall pay half of the reparations in Italy and in the territories west of the Rhine, excluding Spain.

            5. France shall be free to join and make any alliances without direct influence from other countries. The same shall be applied to other countries.

            6. France’s borders shall be set to Revolutionary borders.

The terms were ratified on July 16, 1815.

From Greater French Empie to Napoleon I's death
Napoleon I renamed the Empire to the Greater French Empire. He improved the efficiency of the army by making more weapons and the economy by industrialization and Capitalisation of the economy. He