Battle of Waterloo (Short-lived US)

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In the Battle of Waterloo (Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, Belgium) forces of the under  and Michel Ney were defeated by those of the Seventh Coalition, including a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher and an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington. It was the decisive battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Bonaparte's last. The defeat at Waterloo put an end to Napoleon's rule as the French emperor, and marked the end of Napoleon's of return from exile.

Napoleon's defeat allowed the British to concentrate all of their forces on the war in North America, where the Americans were trying to regain and also take control of the 's colonies.