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Ending in 1815 with the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars changed forever the map of Europe.

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The Duke of Wellington claimed to loathe sitting for portraits. No one, he grumbled in old age, had “sacrificed his time . . . to the artists to the same degree that I have”. He was probably right

On a horrible day 200 years ago, two great commanders, Napoleon and Wellington, fought a decisive battle and the world turned upside down.

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Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) by Sir George Hayter - George Hayter - Wikimedia Commons

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington 1769-1852

Copy after John Trumbull (American, 1756-1843), Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, c.1815. Oil on wood, 28 5/16 x 23 ¼ in. Bequest of Daniel Wadsworth. 1848.23. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

The Duke of Wellington met Napoleon's wife Marie Louise at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the Congress of Verona in 1822. Lord Byron wrote a poem about it.