“Waterloo is a moment that was decisive and crucial in the history of our continent. It is here – in Waterloo – that the 'European concert' triumphed for the first time”, Belgium's prime minister Charles Michel said in a speech, 200 years after the battle of Waterloo.
Except that it wasn't “here in Waterloo”.
The battlefield where Napoleon Bon...
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