General Overview: Napoleon.

Meanwhile the French were trying to board the victory but every man who had managed to board the victory got killed. And because of the sublime tactic of Nelson, the French fleet were forced to surrender or to retreat. Nelson who was dying was still able to hear the good news that they had won the battle. Nelson hes last words were ‘ I have done my duty , I thank God for it ` and then he died as he happy man. The victory of Nelson was so important and great that they made a monument of Nelson on Trafalgar square in London.

But Napoleon wasn’t beaten. Ten years later the battle of Trafalgar came the critical battle, the battle of Waterloo on the 18th of June 1815. It was a battle between Napoleon’s army of 100 000 men and Wellington’s army of 70 000 British, German, Belgium and dutch men. Wellington’s army was in position at Mont St. Jean and Prussian troops commanded by Field Marshal Blücher were heading towards Wellington’s army to join forces. Napoleon was a brilliant stragegist and knew that he would be hard pressed if a Wellington-Blücher combined army would take place. It was Napoleon's plan to engage and destroy Wellington before Blücher could arrive and combine with the Alliance Army. But the evening before the battle had seen heavy rainfall and this delayed his attack until the next morning. Remarkable is that Napoleon was absent on the day of the battle because he was really sick and he had given his command to marshal Ney. The strategy of Ney’s army was to fire off the grenades to break down Wellington’s army but with the heavy rainfall the ground was full of mud and the grenades got stuck in the mud so they hadn’t such a great impact as usual. Wellington’s army was situated on a mountain. As marshal Ney attacked, he saw Wellington’s army retreating sow he commanded his entire cavalry to attack. But Wellington’s army wasn’t retreating. They had placed their cannons just behind the top of the mountain. Wellington’s army had very great cannons wich are called ‘schrapnell’. The cannons fire a cannon ball that splitts up in smaller bullets. When the French cavalry reached the top of the mountain they were surprised by the British cannons and the French cavalry was as good as destroyed. Marshal Ney who saw his cavalry losing, was become mad because of all the horrible things he saw during the campaign in Russia where 300 000 French soldiers died of hunger and cold, could not control his anger and could not think very well. So he sent hes whole army up to the mountain to attack Wellington, wich was a big mistake off course. Marshal Ney who saw hes army losing didn’t want to surrender so he kept attacking. Finally the French army was beaten and the war against Napoleon was over. Napoleon was banned to the island ‘Saint Helena’ where he stayed the rest of his life.