Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

And on the eighteenth of June 1815 comes Waterloo.

Napoleon faces an allied army commanded by the Duke of Wellington, while Prussian forces under Gebhard von Blücher are also approaching.

Napoleon loses, and this time there will be no smaller island with a little imperial administration to keep him occupied.

He abdicates again.

The left wing was commanded by Marshal Michel Ney, while the right was commanded by Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy.

In the following days, Napoleon moved across Belgium, overrunning coalition outposts and establishing his position between the armies of Gebhard von Blücher, the commander of the Prussian army, and Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington and the commander of the Anglo-allied army.

Napoleon sought to take on these armies separately by preventing them from joining together.

He was more confident in his ability to take them on one at a time, rather than together as he was greatly outnumbered.

The small band of troops operating under the command of the Prince of Orange was initially able to fend off the incoming onslaught by the left wing of the French army, but since they had the greater numbers, Marshal Ney's men were eventually able to push back the opposing troops.

The ensuing conflict is now known as the Battle of Quatre Braches, and ultimately led to an Anglo-allied victory, after Wellesley and his men arrived at the scene and helped to drive away the French.

Later that same day, Napoleon participated in the Battle of Ligny, in which his men faced Prussian soldiers commanded by Blücher.

Using both the right wing of the French army and a section of the reserve, Napoleon struck Russian troops with a heavy hand.

The Congress of Vienna declared Napoleon an outlaw, and all the major powers of Europe resolved to once again put their armies in the field to remove him from power.

Wellington, appointed to command British forces, left Vienna for the Netherlands, where British troops were being combined with Dutch and small German state forces into an allied army that would fight alongside a Prussian army commanded by General Gebhard von Blücher.

They were planning to wait there until July, when the Russian and Austrian armies would join them and they would all invade France together as an overwhelming force.

Napoleon, figuring that if he defeated both the British and the Prussian armies in turn, he could force the coalition to the negotiating table, marched first.

And the battle was just about lost.

But at four o'clock, General von Blücher from the East Prussians mounted on Tricaners.

I guess, sort of sandwiched Napoleon, and he was defeated there.

And the East Prussians mounted on East Prussian horses, mostly Tretaners and Tretaner crosses, noticed those thoroughbreds from the Duke of Wellington running circles around Napoleon and also the East Prussians.

Maybe.

And then, uh, Blücher, who is the Prussian.

Yeah.

Uh, and these are the two forces that, uh, uh, basically, uh, Napoleon's going for.

Yeah.

16th of June, 1815, The Battle of Ligny.

Napoleon attacks Blücher at Ligny, and this is Napoleon's final-

Yeah