article_snippet.sent: The British forming a square in the face of attacks from Napoleon's troops .
article_snippet.sent: The Scots Greys making an intervention in the battle, whose 200th anniversary is this year .
article_snippet.sent: There is also a grim depiction of Major General Sir William Ponsonby meeting Major General Sir William Ponsonby end - being speared by a group of French lancers.
article_snippet.sent: Grim: Major General Sir William Ponsonby being cut down by a group of French lancers during the Battle of Waterloo .
article_snippet.sent: Onslaught: French troops trying to break through the gates of Hougoumont, as the British guard the walls .
article_snippet.sent: Whilst thousands will be making the trip to Belgium to participate in and witness re-enactments on the battlefield, we can bring the battlefield to Britain.'
article_snippet.sent: Von Blucher leading the Prussian troops onto the battlefield, in a decisive intervention .
article_snippet.sent: The armies amassed near the town of Waterloo in modern-day Belgium, not far from the border with France, and it was the French who made the first move around 11am.
article_snippet.sent: The two sides clashed for 10 hours, with the British fending off repeated attacks from the French, until Marshal Blücher arrived at the head of a Prussian army.