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What the Battle of Waterloo means to us

Two hundred years ago Americans did not fight in the bloody Battle of Waterloo, but Napoleon's defeat was only part of a larger worldwide war in which the U.S. played a role. Historian Bernard Cornwell discusses how the decisive 19th century battle changed the world, and the lives of the thousands who fell.
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