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Waterloo was the final clash of Europe’s greatest general — and the unshakable discipline of British infantry.
Napoleon expected to sweep aside Wellington’s redcoats, just as he had beaten every other European army for twenty years.

But the British line held firm.

Through cavalry charges, artillery bombardments, and repeated infantry assaults, redcoat units absorbed the blows and returned deadly volleys that tore French columns apart. Their discipline and formations — especially the infantry square — proved nearly impossible to break.

This video reveals how the British line fought, how Napoleon miscalculated, and how a single ridge at Waterloo became the graveyard of a French empire.