Waterloo, in Belgium, is a small town located seventeen kilometres south of Brussels. The town is very close to forests and its name may have originated from the Latin words for ‘water” and “loo”, which literally means wet forest. This unknown, small hamlet in the province of Walloon became a well-known landmark on the world map as a result of the famed battle between Napoleon Bonaparte and the Alliance of the Seventh Coalition formed by the most powerful monarchs of Europe under the command of the Duke of Wellington on 18th June 1815.

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