article_snippet: In the one day of fighting there were around 55,000 either killed, wounded, or missing in action.
article_snippet: However, the battle ushered in more than 50 years of peace.
article_snippet: 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: 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.