article_snippet.sent: View of Hougoumont farmhouse from The Lion's Mound or Butte du Lion on the battlefield of Waterloo, Belgium .
article_snippet.sent: My, my: the people of Waterloo must have been delighted.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Waterloo’ quickly entered the English language as a synonym for ‘a decisive defeat’.
article_snippet.sent: Battle of Waterloo reenactors stand in historic costume, with rifles and flags .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Martin points to the poster advertising the re-enactment event which will be taking place this summer over four days from June 18 to 21; the photograph shows a giant, heroic Napoleon towering over the smaller, less impressive figures of Wellington and Prussian leader Blucher.
article_snippet.sent: A painting of the Battle of Waterloo; 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the battle .
article_snippet.sent: Waterloo Napoleon was established as one of the great continental sights.
article_snippet.sent: Waterloo Napoleon was British tourists visiting Waterloo who discovered the neglected city of Bruges
article_snippet.sent: There was an unmistakable sense that Waterloo had been a defining moment in history: Europe had been reshaped and, the odd Franco-German conflict apart, peace reigned for a century.
article_snippet.sent: The pleasure of the area around Waterloo is that in many ways the area around Waterloo has barely changed.
article_snippet.sent: A statue sits atop the Lion's Mound, which commemorates the battlefield at Waterloo, Belgium .