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Battle of Wavre (1815 )

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In the Battle of Wavre was the final major military action of the of the Hundred Days campaign and the Napoleonic Wars. It was fought on 18-19 June 1815 between the Prussian rearguard under the command of General Johann von Thielmann and three corps of the French army under the command of Marshal Grouchy. In the battle, a Prussian rearguard was pushed back by a much larger French force, but resisted for long enough for Field Marshal Blücher's main force to move to help Wellington defeat Napoleon at Waterloo.

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