(See also: How the Battle of Waterloo changed the world.) This 1874 oil painting by Félix Philippoteaux shows one of the last French cavalry charges against the British infantry during the Battle ...

Waterloo cements our dominance of the seas ... crashing down into the surprised French infantry. Only 20 of them survive. For several minutes the French refuse to fire – a gesture of gallantry ...

Eighty years ago, on July 8, 1944, the Highland Light Infantry advanced across an open field under enemy fire to liberate the village of Buron from Nazi occupation. Seventy Canadians were killed ...

A medal awarded to the oldest Scot who took part in the cavalry charge that turned around the Battle of Waterloo, has fetched ...

A huge diorama of the Battle of Waterloo has been restored to its ... Brigade (the Allied cavalry offensive that scattered the French infantry), the French cavalry attacks of 4,500 men to ...

French dead littered the valley floor. When the infantry faltered the generals ... of the Mexicans like they had not experienced since Waterloo. At a village named Cameron, outside Vera Cruz ...

After Waterloo, the family moved to Wales ... initially defended Hougoumont against 2,500 French troops. At noon, French infantry burst through one of the gates in the besieged Hougoumont ...

On June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte literally met his Waterloo ... While the French did not see value in rifle-armed infantry, preferring the rapidity of firepower presented by smoothbore ...

Three armies fought at Waterloo in 1815 ... of much of his vital infantry reserves, and it was the capture of the strongpoint at Plancenoit in the right rear of the French position that was ...

Of the 32 infantry regiments in Wellington’s ... Did the Emperor’s defeat at Waterloo destroy the French supremacy which began in the mid-1600’s? Not really. Until the early 19th century ...

WATERLOO — A sendoff for National Guard soldiers from the Waterloo-based 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry is scheduled for May 28 for eventual deployment to the Middle East. The event starts at 6 p ...