Peter Snow

June 2015 marked the 200th anniversary of the bloody climactic showdown of the Napoleonic Wars - The Battle of Waterloo.

More than 150,000 French, British, Dutch and Prussian soldiers fought an epic, bloody and decisive battle that ended the Napoleonic Wars. It cost the lives of tens of thousands of men but led to decades of international peace in Europe.

This illustrated talk explains how, on the morning of Sunday 18th June 1815, these two military giants faced each other for the first and only time across the sodden rolling Belgian farmland south of Brussels.