After the Battle of Waterloo , France was occupied by 1.2 million foreign soldiers ; occupation continued until 1818 , by around 200,000 soldiers under the command military.military_command the Duke of Wellington , and France was made to pay the costs of their accommodation and rations , on top of the reparations .

It was made in part from wood Scott had taken from the Waterloo Elm , when he visited the battlefield shortly after the Battle of Waterloo ( the elm tree had been the Duke of Wellington 's command military.military_command for much of the battle ) .

It was the Duke of Wellington 's command military.military_command for much of the Battle of Waterloo ( 18 June 1815 ) .

Nassau 's troops fought under the command military.military_command Arthur Wellesley , 1st Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo .

The regiment does not appear again until the Battle of Waterloo , where Sharpe and Sergeant Patrick Harper save the regiment from the advance of Napoleon 's Old Guard at the end of the battle , where Sharpe is finally given command military.military_command the regiment by the Duke of Wellington .

The town is named for General Sir Thomas Picton , second in command military.military_command Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo .

The Waterloo Chamber , dating from 1830–31 , is a large room in Windsor Castle dedicated to the military defeat of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte by British , Prussian , Russian and Austrian forces under the command military.military_command the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo .

Under his command military.military_command Royal Welsh Fusiliers joined the Duke of Wellington 's army on the field of Waterloo the night before the battle , having made a forced march from Grammont .

When Napoleon returned from Elba , during the Hundred Days the prince was given command military.military_command a detachment of Wellington 's army which was posted in a fall back position near Braine-le-Comte should the battle taking place at Waterloo be lost .

Without radio or telephone communication Montgomery managed to improvise an effective command military.military_command control system based on those of the Duke of Wellington 's 'gallopers ' of the Battle of Waterloo .

He participated in the Napoleonic Wars and in 1815 he was in command military.military_command a reserve force in Brussels , which was protecting that city in case Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo .

Following a civil war in the Arab Empire the Umayyads came to power under Muawiyah I . Under the Umayyads the conquest of the remaining Byzantine territories in North Africa was completed and the Arabs were able to move across large parts of Maghreb , invading Visigothic Spain through the Strait of Gibraltar , under the command military.military_command the Berber general Tariq ibn-Ziyad .

It had been planned for him to command military.military_command brigade in Norway but with the German Army 's invasion of Western Europe in May , he was sent to join Lord Gort 's headquarters as Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) .

The Battle of France began in May 1940 , by which time Hill was attached to the command military.military_command of Field Marshal Lord Gort ; during this period he was involved in planning the evacuation of the civilian population of Brussels , and also carried Gort 's dispatches to Calais ordering the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) .

In July 1918 the Division was reformed as the Fourth Cavalry Division under the command military.military_command General Allenby and the Regiment played a key role in the decisive Battle of Megiddo ( 1918 ) .

It was formed in 1917 in the Middle East as No . 111 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps during the reorganisation of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force after General Edmund Allenby took command military.military_command the Sinai and Palestine Campaign .

In 1790 , he became a major-general , and in 1793 was appointed to command military.military_command Guards Brigade in the Duke of York and Albany 's army in Flanders during the French Revolutionary Wars .

The Siege of Dunkirk took place in 1793 when British , Hanoverian , Austrian , and Hesse-Kassel troops under the command military.military_command Prince Frederick , Duke of York besieged the fortified French border port of Dunkirk as part as the Flanders campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars .

He served under the command military.military_command the Duke of York in the Flanders Campaign in 1794 then embarked for the West Indies late in 1795 , under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby , and assisted at the capture of the island of St. Lucia in 1796 .

His regiment was part of the expeditionary force sent to Flanders to campaign against the French as part of the First Coalition ( the British contingent under the command military.military_command Prince Frederick , Duke of York ) .

While it is true that Prince Frederick , Duke of York and Albany , did command military.military_command army in the Flanders Campaign of 1793 and was probably in the vicinity , the link with Cassel is considered dubious as the eponymous nursery rhyme appears to have originated well before the Revolutionary Wars .

It was fought during operations surrounding the Siege of Dunkirk between 6 and 8 September 1793 at Hondschoote , Nord , France , and resulted in a French victory under General Jean Nicolas Houchard and General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan against the command military.military_command Marshal Freytag , part of the Anglo-Hanoverian corps of the Duke of York .

Next for Lt. Col. Enys was Holland where a force of British and Russian soldiers under the command military.military_command the Duke of York were sent to try and drive the French out of the Netherlands in 1799 .

In November 1808 , he was promoted to general of brigade and fought under the command military.military_command Marshal Nicolas Soult at the Battle of Corunna .

The battle of Sassello was a minor skirmish during the war of the Second Coalition , fought on 10 April 1800 between a 2,000-men French force under General Jean-de-Dieu Soult and a largely superior Austrian corps under the command military.military_command Prince Prince Hohenzollern .

Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan was placed in command military.military_command the Army of the Shenandoah , which was composed of the VI , VIII , and XIX Corps , and its campaign in the Valley was a memorable one by reason of the victories at Third Winchester , Fisher 's Hill , and Cedar Creek .

A battle in Winchester ( a.k.a . Opequon ) matched a total of 54,000 troops under command military.military_command General Philip Sheridan for the Union and General Jubal Early for the rebels .

During the ensuing operations in the Shenandoah Valley , under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan , Wheaton was promoted to command military.military_command the first division after Brig . Gen. David Allen Russell was killed at the Third Battle of Winchester .

Upon Napoleon 's escape from Elba in 1815 he once more placed himself under the Duke of Wellington 's command military.military_command joined the allied forces of the Seventh Coalition in Belgium .

After commissioning at Woolwich in October 1814 , `` Leven '' was employed on the coast of La Vendee during Napoleon Bonaparte 's final campaign , under the command military.military_command Captain Buckland Stirling Bluett .

During Napoleon 's Hundred Days in 1815 , some of the population of Vendée remained loyal to King Louis XVIII , forcing Napoleon – who was short of troops to fight the Waterloo Campaign – to send a force of 10,000 under the command military.military_command Jean Maximilien Lamarque to pacify the region .

During the Hundred Days , Desvaux joined Napoleon and was given command military.military_command the entire Guard artillery .

During the Hundred Days , General Jean Rapp rallied to Napoleon Bonaparte and was given command military.military_command the V Corps ( also known as the Army of the Rhine ) , consisting of about 20,000 men .

During the Hundred Days , Napoleon activated the Army of the Alps and placed it under the command military.military_command Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet .

During the `` Hundred Days '' , Poret de Morvan rallied to Napoleon and was given command military.military_command the 3rd Foot Grenadier Guards regiment , two battalions , with a complement of 1,164 officers and men .

He joined Napoleon in the Hundred Days and was appointed to command military.military_command 23rd Division in Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet 's corps on the Savoy frontier .

At the '' Battle of Long Island '' , ( also known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Brooklyn Heights ) , in August of that year , Stirling led the stalwart , well-trained 1st Maryland Regiment ( also known as the `` Maryland Line '' ) in repeated attacks against a superior British Army force under command military.military_command Gen. Sir William Howe at the Old Stone House near what is today named the Gowanus Creek ( later Gowanus Canal and Bay ) which empties into Upper New York Bay and took heavy casualties .

Between September 14 and October 20 , 1776 , General George Washington used the mansion as his temporary headquarters after his army was forced to evacuate Brooklyn Heights following their loss to the British Army under the command military.military_command General William Howe in the Battle of Long Island .

He participated in the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the Battle of Long Island during the American Revolutionary War , but resigned his command military.military_command 1777 due to disagreements with his superior , General William Howe .

On August 27 , 1776 , British troops under the command military.military_command General William Howe flanked and defeated the American army at the Battle of Long Island .

One example is the Battle of Long Island ( August 27 , 1776 ) , when American General George Washington and his command military.military_command able to escape capture by the British Army by using fog to conceal their location .

After landing in Maryland on August 25 as part of a campaign to capture Philadelphia , the seat of the Continental Congress , British and German forces under the overall command military.military_command General William Howe began to move north .

The western pincer , under the command military.military_command Barry St. Leger , was repulsed when the Siege of Fort Stanwix failed , and the southern pincer , which was to progress up the Hudson valley from New York City , never started since General William Howe decided instead to capture Philadelphia .

Like his father , he remained loyal to the British crown , and , on the start of the American War of Independence , he was appointed commissary to the troops under the command military.military_command Sir William Howe .

There are a number of historical markers in Mercerville , many detailing the path of the Continental Army under the command military.military_command George Washington through the area during the American Revolutionary War , especially related to the night march from the Second Battle of Trenton to the Battle of Princeton .

Lt. Col. Charles Mawhood ( 23 December 1729 – 29 August 1780 ) was a British army officer during the 18th century , most noted for his command military.military_command the Battle of Princeton .

After the first Battle of Trenton , the battalion of Marines under the command military.military_command Maj. Nicholas participated in battle with a detachment of Cornwallis 's main army at Princeton , New Jersey .

Napoleon appointed him to command military.military_command frigate squadron accompanying Brueys 's fleet in the expedition to Egypt , and took part in the Battle of the Nile on the 40-gun frigate `` Diane '' and managed to escape to Malta , where he hoisted his flag aboard the 80-gun ship `` Guillaume Tell '' .

The next year , he was second in command military.military_command Admiral Edward Boscawen at the successful Siege of Louisbourg .

His first command military.military_command the fireship , in which he saw action at the Battle of Lagos on 18 August 1759 , serving under Admiral Edward Boscawen .