<P> The Battle of Waterloo 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 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 . </P>
<P> The Battle of Waterloo 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 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 . </P>
who was defeated in the battle of waterloo
who was defeated in the battle of waterloo
A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte
A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte