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Waterloovillage near Brussels; the great battle there took place June 18, 1815; extended sense of "a final, crushing defeat" is first attested 1816 in letter of Lord Byron. The second element in the [..]
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Waterloo(n) a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat(n) a final crushing defeat(n) the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of We [..]
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