In the second part of our guide to the Battle of Waterloo, fought exactly 200 years ago, we look at the role played by faulty maps, Scottish cavalry – and 15,000 Soviet actors – in Napoleon’s demise.

If Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, as Wellington is supposed to have said, it may have been lost by Napoleon’s map-makers. A printing error left the ...

Two hundred years after the Battle of Waterloo, the Emperor of the French looms larger than ever over this weekend’s London map fair. Book dealer Tim Bryars picks highlights from this year’s event, ...

According to the survey, commissioned by the UK’s National Army Museum, just under half of Britons associate the name “Waterloo” with the eponymous Abba song. The Swedish band’s iconic hit compares a ...