Oxford Numismatic Society

 

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815.

The fiftieth anniversary was not celebrated as Britain and France were on good terms and no-one wanted to offend them.

The hundredth anniversary fell during the First World War and so there were other priorities although the hundredth anniversary of Trafalgar was marked.

A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition. One of these was 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.  The other was composed of three corps of the Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal von Blücher (the fourth corps of this army fought at the Battle of Wavre on the same day). The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.The Marquis of Anglesey and the Charge of the British, AE by Mudie (1820)

Pistrucci's electrotype medal (1840s)

Wellington death 1852 (obv)  

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Charles Riley, Coins & Medals