The Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) was the last major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), fought by a French army under Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) against two armies of the Seventh Coalition. Waterloo resulted in the end of both Napoleon's career and the First French Empire and is often considered one of history's most important battles.
On 1 March 1815, Napoleon returned from exile to regain control of his empire, beginning the period of the Hundred Days. The great powers of Europe responded immediately by branding him an outlaw and declaring war. The decisive Battle of Waterloo was fought between the towns of Mont-Saint-Jean and Waterloo in modern Belgium, then part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Napoleon's objective was to crush the Anglo-allied army of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, before it could be reinforced by a nearby Prussian army under Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Napoleon nearly succeeded in his goal when his men captured the farmhouse of La Haye Sainte and stood poised to break through the allied center. However, the timely arrival of several Prussian corps and a failed charge by the French Imperial Guard dashed Napoleon's hopes of victory. Four days after his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon abdicated for a second time and was exiled to the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, where he would die six years later.
The Battle of Waterloo has often been regarded as one of the most decisive battles in history; it brought an end to the Napoleonic period and ushered in a new political era known as the Concert of Europe. Additionally, Waterloo marked an end to nearly 23 years of constant warfare that had devastated continental Europe since the Battle of Valmy in September 1792. After Waterloo, Europe enjoyed decades of relative peace, as the great powers did not fight another major war until the Crimean War (1853-1856). Still, the importance of the Battle of Waterloo is sometimes overstated; historians have argued that the odds against Napoleon were impossibly high, and had he not been defeated at Waterloo, he likely would have met his end on some other battlefield shortly thereafter
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To make matters worse, I’ve been in the tech space for 5-6 years now, and it’s just dawning on me how everything is becoming more and more policed and censored. Seems like Edward Snowden had like 5 minutes (and then 5 more minutes on Joe Rogan) and then the NSA and big tech continued making deals under the table. I honestly don’t know how such an overtly communist website is still allowed to exist on the internet.
I’ve met so many irl leftists who tried for years and years and just eventually gave up. Capital seems to be one step ahead at every turn and I truly don’t believe anything can stop it
Wish China would just hurry the fuck up because we live in such a fucking surveillance state.
a) they want you to think that
b) lenin was depressed in like 1904 and joined nothing ever happens gang
c) I feel like there is distinct lack of exploitation left to exploit in the world, unless china decides to do ussr trick
d) being nice and caring about other people is being human
Lack of hope has never been a valid reason for giving up.