Battle of Waterloo and withdrew in good order—though at the cost of 33,000 French troops that never reached the Waterloo battlefield. Wellington sent describing the battle to England on 19 June 1815; it arrived in London on 21 June 1815 and was published as a "London Gazette Extraordinary" on 22 June. Wellington, Blücher and other Coalition forces advanced upon Paris. Napoleon announced his second abdication on 24 June 1815. In the final skirmish of the Napoleonic Wars, Marshal Davout, Napoleon's minister of war, was defeated by Blücher at Issy on 3 July 1815. Allegedly, Napoleon tried to escape to North America, but the
Waterloo, Nebraska Waterloo, Nebraska Waterloo is a village in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 848 at the 2010 census. Waterloo was founded in about 1870 when the Union Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. The name commemorates the Battle of Waterloo. Waterloo is located at (41.287021, -96.288387). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 848 people, 337 households, and 229 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 359 housing units at an average