'On the evening of the Battle of Waterloo' - from painting by Ernest Crofts. Battle between French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon and armies of the Seventh Coalition; an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington; supported by Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. 18 June 1815. During Waterloo Campaign of findal Hundred Days (Neopolitan War) of Napoleonic Wars; between Napoleon 's return from exile and defeat at Waterloo. Present- day Belgium. Cassell's History of England; Volume V. Plater after p. 102