Battle of Wavre Battle of Wavre The Battle of Wavre was the final major military action of the Hundred Days campaign and the Napoleonic Wars. It was fought on 18–19 June 1815 between the Prussian rearguard, consisting of the Prussian III Corps under the command of General Johann von Thielmann (whose chief-of-staff was Carl von Clausewitz) and three corps of the French army under the command of Marshal Grouchy. A blocking action, this battle kept 33,000 French soldiers from reaching the Battle of Waterloo and so helped in the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Following defeat at the Battle of Ligny two days
Battle of Jobourg was one final naval engagement of the long Napoleonic Wars during the Hundred Days in 1815, when the ship of the line HMS "Rivoli" intercepted and defeated the Napoleonic frigate "Melpomène" on 30 April. "Hebrus"'s battle with "Etoile" was however the final encounter of dozens between individual frigates in the almost continuous 23-years of warfare between Britain and France. Battle of Jobourg The Battle of Jobourg was a minor naval engagement between British and French frigate squadrons during the last weeks of the War of the Sixth Coalition in the 22nd and penultimate year of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic