Correct Answer - Option 2 : Wellington
The correct answer is Wellington.
Battle of Waterloo, also called La Belle Alliance, (June 18, 1815), Napoleon's final defeat, ending 23 years of recurrent warfare between France and the other powers of Europe.
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At Waterloo in Belgium, Napoleon Bonaparte suffers defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington, bringing an end to the Napoleonic era of European history. The Corsica-born Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s.
- The British army, which included Belgian, Dutch and German troops, was commanded by Arthur Wellesley
- Napoleon ordered his cavalry to attack the British line and then ordered repeated infantry charges. This resulted in very high French casualties. The British, under the leadership of Wellington, held firm. Waterloo was a victory for the allies, but as Wellington himself asserted afterwards, it was a narrow victory.
- The Battle of Waterloo was a conflict on June 18, 1815, during the Hundred Days, the period from Napoleon's escape from exile to the return of Louis XVIII Fought near Waterloo village, Belgium, it pitted Napoleon's 72,000 French troops against the Duke of Wellington's army of 68,000 (British, Dutch, Belgian, and German soldiers) aided by 45,000 Prussians under Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher.
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Hence, the correct answer is Wellington.
Battle of Waterloo is still considered to be important due to the following reasons:
- It paved a way for the UK to become a global power.
- The Prussians’ contribution in the defeat of the French Army at Waterloo entered the mythology of the Prussian state, creating a sense of nationalism
- which then played a key role in the formation of the new German Empire after 1870
- Historian John Sadler states that "Many who died that day in Waterloo were buried in shallow graves but their bodies were later disinterred and their skeletons were taken. They were ground down and used as fertilizers and taken back home to be used on English crops.
