2-715-820 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Last Charge at Waterloo', (1815), 1890. Fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition, the British led by the Duke of Wellington, and Prussians under Field Marshal Blucher, this marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]