War Walks

BBC Four HD

1:05 AM to 1:35 AM

Thursday 12 November

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Military historian Richard Holmes describes the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, visiting fields and farms in Belgium where the confrontation took place. Napoleon's mighty French army suffered a decisive defeat at the hands of a combined British and Prussian force, which brought one of the most powerful European empires since Roman times crashing down