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Five thousand re-enactors will repeat the battle of Waterloo, which actually did not take place in Waterloo (Photo: Peter Teffer)

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The real Waterloo

by Peter Teffer, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium,
Five thousand re-enactors will repeat the battle of Waterloo, which actually did not take place in Waterloo (Photo: Peter Teffer)

“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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