"In which modern day country was the ""Battle of Waterloo"" fought in 1815?"
Battle of Waterloo Battle of Waterloo The Battle of Waterloo, also called the Battle of Mount St. John, was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Upon Napoleon's return to power in March
Waterloo (1815 ship) Waterloo (1815 ship) Waterloo was a merchant ship built at Bristol, England in 1815. On her first voyage she suffered a short-lived mutiny. She then made one voyage under charter to the British East India Company (EIC). She made four voyages transporting convicts from England to Australia, and two voyages from Ireland to Australia. On her seventh convict voyage "Waterloo" wrecked on 28 August 1842 in Table Bay with great loss of life. "Waterloo" enters "Lloyd's Registry" in 1815 with James Ray, master, and trade London-Jamaica. Mutiny: "Waterloo", James Ray, master, made a voyage to Madeira and Jamaica. As she