Napoleon's Waterloo - DVD

DVD, PAL, Region 2, Run Time: 59 Mins

Napoleon' Waterloo is a Granada Production for Channel 4 Television.

On the morning of June 18th 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, the master military tactician, empire builder and arch gambler faced his ultimate challenge. Across a non-descript piece of Belgian farmland we now call Waterloo stood his enemy the Duke of Wellington, the man chosen by Europe to lead the coalition armies against him and to crush him once and for all. Just four months earlier, Napoleon had been all but forgotten, living in ignominious exile on the tiny island of Elba. But now he was back, at the head of a truly elite French army.

Napoleon's Waterloo not only examines the bloody coinflict between the French and the coalition armies, but also the intense personalm rivalry between Napoleon and his nemesis, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke Of Wellington.

When Napoleon broke free from exile and once more threatened Europe, the European rulers turned to Britain and Wellington as their only hope. Napoleaon knew that only Wellington stood between him and glory. The fight to stop him at Waterloo would cost 50,000 lives...

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