1-626-164 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Napoleon Bonaparte at the end of the battle of Waterloo, 18th June 1815. Napoleon (1769-1821) French soldier and emperor, fleeing from the battlefield of Waterloo after his defeat by the British under Wellington and the Prussians commanded by Blucher. Waterloo marked the end of the French First Empire. Napoleon was exiled to St Helena, where he died in 1821. A print from Le Patriote Illustre.