It is the evening of June 18, 1815 and an exultant Napoleon Bonaparte surveys the field after winning the Battle of Waterloo, planning his next conquest. Within years his empire will stretch as far as ...

Archaeologists have uncovered amputated limbs from the site of a field hospital used in the Battle of Waterloo. Researchers were using metal detectors at the Belgian battle site when they found what ...

The United States of America has only been invaded once; the British landed in 1812 from Chesapeake Bay and took Washington, D.C. the capital of the United States. Mexico has not been so lucky. First, ...

Anybody with any inkling of the French and their culture will know that they hold their language in impeccably high esteem. So it comes as something of a shock, then, that Le Monde, the country’s ...

PARIS – The French, it seems safe to say, have had a hard time getting over Waterloo. Their defeat on the battlefield 200 years ago June 18, at the hands of the British Duke of Wellington, ended ...

BRUSSELS—Belgium announced this week it would issue a special €2.50 coin to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, circumventing French objections that had blocked issuance of a ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — It is hardly 1815 all over again, but battles leave scars for centuries. And when it comes to Waterloo, the result still does not sit well with France. Belgium is looking to change a ...