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The 1970 Military Historical Drama Depicting The Battle Of Waterloo, Napoleon's Climactic Final Battle, Starring Rod Steiger As Napoleon, Christopher Plummer As The Duke Of Wellington And Orson Welles As King Louis XVIII (Color, 1970, 2 Hours 8 Minutes.) PLUS BONUS: YOU ARE THERE: LA MURE, FRANCE: NAPOLEON'S RETURN FROM ELBA AND MARCH TO PARIS: MARCH 7, 1815: Hypothetical News Coverage Of The Fateful Confrontation Of Napoleon By Royalist Troops During His March On Paris (Along What Is Now Known As The Route Napoleon) Following His Escape From Exile On The Italian Island Of Elba To Begin The "Hundred Days" Period Of Napoleon's Rule That Culminated In The Waterloo Campaign, As Told In This Episode Of The Renowned 1947-50 Weekly Historical Dramatization Series By The Famed World War II Staff Of CBS News, Here Narrated By John Charles Daly, The First National Correspondent To Report The Attack On Pearl Harbor And The Death Of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Audio Only, April 17, 1949, 30 Minutes) -- All Presented In Our Highest DVD Quality MPEG Video Format At 9.1 MBPS As A MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! #Waterloo #WaterlooFilm #Waterloo1970Film #RodSteiger #ChristopherPlummer #OrsonWelles #BattleOfWaterloo #NapoleonicWars #Belgium #Waterloo #Napoleon #NapoleonBonaparte #ArthurWellesley #ArthurWellesley1stDukeOfWellington #DukeOfWellington #GebhardLeberechtVonBlucher #GebhardLeberechtVonBluecher #Blucher #Bluecher #HistoricalDramas #Docudramas #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #Cinema #YouAreThere #Radio #OldTimeRadio #OTR #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD

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Few battles in world history rank in importance as highly as that of Waterloo. It ensured the end of the military career of one of history's most brilliant generals and the continental scourge of his time, Napoleon Bonaparte, when his attempt to re-establish his reign over the French republic was thwarted by the combined forces of Prussia's General Blucher and those of his battlefield superior, Britain's General Wellington. The ground had been carefully chosen by Wellington, yet the battle was nonetheless so desperate that it appeared for a long while as though he was losing the field to Napoleon. See how he, Blucher and their armies lead by the strong arm of fate delivered victory from the jaws of defeat.

Director:
Sergei Bondarchuk

Writers:
H.A.L. Craig (Story)
Sergei Bondarchuk, Vittorio Bonicelli (Screenplay)


Cast:
Rod Steiger ... Napoleon Bonaparte
Christopher Plummer ... Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Orson Welles ... King Louis XVIII
Jack Hawkins ... Gen. Sir Thomas Picton
Virginia McKenna ... Duchess of Richmond
Dan O'Herlihy ... Marshal Michel Ney
Rupert Davies ... Gordon
Philippe Forquet ... La Bedoyere
Gianni Garko ... Drouot
Ivo Garrani ... Soult
Ian Ogilvy ... De Lancey
Michael Wilding ... Ponsonby
Sergo Zaqariadze ... Blucher (as Serghej Zakhariadze)
Terence Alexander ... Uxbridge
Andrea Checchi ... Sauret


The Battle Of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington, referred to by many authors as the Anglo-allied army or Wellington's army, and a Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal von Blucher, referred to also as Blucher's army. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Upon Napoleon's return to power in March 1815, many states that had opposed him formed the Seventh Coalition and began to mobilise armies. Wellington and Blucher's armies were cantoned close to the northeastern border of France. Napoleon planned to attack them separately in the hope of destroying them before they could join in a coordinated invasion of France with other members of the coalition. On 16 June, Napoleon successfully attacked the bulk of the Prussian army at the Battle of Ligny with his main force, causing the Prussians to withdraw northwards on 17 June, but parallel to Wellington and in good order. Napoleon sent a third of his forces to pursue the Prussians, which resulted in the separate Battle of Wavre with the Prussian rear-guard on 18-19 June, and prevented that French force from participating at Waterloo. Also on 16 June, a small portion of the French army contested the Battle of Quatre Bras with the Anglo-allied army. The Anglo-allied army held their ground on 16 June, but the withdrawal of the Prussians caused Wellington to withdraw north to Waterloo on 17 June. Upon learning that the Prussian army was able to support him, Wellington decided to offer battle on the Mont-Saint-Jean escarpment across the Brussels road, near the village of Waterloo. Here he withstood repeated attacks by the French throughout the afternoon of 18 June, aided by the progressively arriving Prussians who attacked the French flank and inflicted heavy casualties. In the evening Napoleon assaulted the Anglo-allied line with his last reserves, the senior infantry battalions of the French Imperial Guard. With the Prussians breaking through on the French right flank, the Anglo-allied army repulsed the Imperial Guard, and the French army was routed. Waterloo was the decisive engagement of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last. According to Wellington, the battle was "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life". Napoleon abdicated four days later, and coalition forces entered Paris on 7 July. The defeat at Waterloo ended Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French and marked the end of his Hundred Days return from exile. This ended the First French Empire and set a chronological milestone between serial European wars and decades of relative peace, often referred to as the Pax Britannica. The battlefield is located in the Belgian municipalities of Braine-l'Alleud and Lasne, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Brussels, and about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the town of Waterloo. The site of the battlefield today is dominated by the monument of the Lion's Mound, a large artificial hill constructed from earth taken from the battlefield itself; the topography of the battlefield near the mound has not been preserved.

Napoleon's Return from Elba was effected while the Allies were distracted. At the Congress Of Vienna Of November 1814-1815, a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French emperor Napoleon, infighting prevented a coherent management of Napoleon's imprisonment, as the various participating nations had very different and conflicting goals and could not agree upon joint actions regarding him. On February 26, 1815 when the British and French guard ships were absent, his tiny fleet, consisting of the brig Inconstant, four small transports, and two feluccas, slipped away from Portoferraio with some 1,000 men and landed at Golfe-Juan, between Cannes and Antibes, on March 1, 1815. Except in royalist Provence, he was warmly received. He avoided much of Provence by taking a route through the Alps, marked today as the Route Napoleon. Firing no shot in his defence, his troop numbers swelled until they became an army. On March 5, the nominally royalist 5th Infantry Regiment at Grenoble went over to Napoleon en masse. The next day they were joined by the 7th Infantry Regiment under its colonel, Charles de la Bedoyere, who would be executed for treason by the Bourbons after the campaign ended. An anecdote illustrates Napoleon's charisma: when royalist troops were deployed to stop the march of Napoleon's force before Grenoble at Laffrey, Napoleon stepped out in front of them, ripped open his coat and said "If any of you will shoot his Emperor, here I am." The men joined his cause. Marshal Ney, now one of Louis XVIII's commanders, had said that Napoleon ought to be brought to Paris in an iron cage, but, on March 14, in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura Ney joined Napoleon with a small army of 6,000 men. On March 15 Joachim Murat, King of Naples, declared war on Austria in an attempt to save his throne, starting the Neapolitan War. On March 20, after proceeding through the countryside promising constitutional reform and direct elections to an assembly, to the acclaim of gathered crowds, Napoleon entered the capital, from where Louis XVIII had recently fled. He appointed the French Government of the Hundred Days that day. The royalists did not pose a major threat: the duc d'Angouleme raised a small force in the south, but at Valence it did not provide resistance against Imperialists under Grouchy's command; and the duke, on April 9, 1815, signed a convention whereby the royalists received a free pardon from the Emperor. The royalists of Vendee moved later and caused more difficulty for the Imperialists. Ney was arrested on August 3, 1815, tried on November 16, and executed on December 7, 1815.