The Girl I Left Behind Me But You're a Polish Lancer at The Battle of Waterloo

The Girl I Left Behind Me But You're a Polish Lancer at The Battle of Waterloo.

The Girl I Left Behind Me is a fife and drum fast marching song, first used in Britain but later adopted by many European countries.

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition. One was a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington (referred to by many authors as the Anglo-allied army or Wellington's army). The other was a larger Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal von Blücher (also referred to as Blücher's army). The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle was contemporaneously known as the Battle of Mont Saint-Jean (France) or La Belle Alliance ("the Beautiful Alliance" – Prussia).

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