Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo stands as a very important episode in the whole of Napoleon Bonaparte 's wartime adventures . The battle of water was the battle that took place between Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington . The theatre of battle was in an area closed to the Belgian Capital Brussels . The Battle of Waterloo has been considered by many as one of the most crucial battle in history and the battle claims responsibility for reversing the trend of European history . The reason is that it was the fierce fighting that occurred in

the muddy field closed to Brussels in 1815 between the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon that finally sealed Napoleon 's fate in his bid to rule the world . This battle took place just some one hundred days after Napoleon returned from exile in Elba

One of the reasons why Napoleon Bonaparte failed in battle of Waterloo was the fact that he himself failed to maintain his own tactics . Before this battle Napoleon sought to keep the forces of his opponents separated so that they would have difficulties in coordinating their war efforts but this was never the case . For instance , before waterloo Napoleon was in battle with the Prussians while his commanders remained busy elsewhere . In fact Napoleon had crushed the Prussians though with some tress . During this period also one of Napoleons Commanders Marshall Ney got his men involved in a battle with Britain and this battle was termed Quartre-Bras

The understanding here is that Marshall though the battle of Quarte Bras kept Napoleon main principle of the war in tact . Britain found it difficult to unite her might with Prussian war effort . The situation at Waterloo was a completely different scenario . At Waterloo , Wellington succeeded to pin down Napoleon leading a situation Napoleon regarded as one of his nightmares in his bid to conquer the world . At this stage of the war , the joint forces of Britain , Holland , Belgium and later on Russia pulled their might together to crush the French forces at Waterloo . Moreover , his efforts to keep Russia away from the battle failed . He had sent one of his commanders with 3000 men to keep the Russians busy thereby keeping them away from the forces of Britain Holland and Belgium , but this mission never succeeded as the Russians ended up re-enforcing the allied forces at Waterloo . In this regards Napoleon lost at Waterloo partly because he had failed to hold to his war time commitment of keeping the forces of his opponents separated

Another reason why Napoleon failed in the battle of waterloo was the fact that the British forces had some tactical advantages over those of the French . To begin with , the British forces were well trained to withstand cavalry which was a significant part of Napoleon 's war efforts . The British mounted three line deep square with soldiers at the forefront kneeling and those behind firing . Moreover the British army had what it took for this system to succeed and that...