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Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington meets with Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher at La Belle Alliance after defeating Napoleon and the French army at the Battle of Waterloo during the Napoleonic War of the Seventh Coalition on 18th June 1815 at Waterloo, Belgium. From a sketch by William Heath and a aquatint engraving by J.C.Stadler. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington meets with Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher at La Belle Alliance after defeating Napoleon and the French army at the Battle of Waterloo during the Napoleonic War of the Seventh Coalition on 18th June 1815 at Waterloo, Belgium. From a sketch by William Heath and a aquatint engraving by J.C.Stadler. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)