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In 1815 deposed emperor Napoleon came back to France and threatened the already devastated and worn out continent with just one more war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to choose the future of Europe--Napoleon's forces using one aspect and the Duke of Wellington's on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander can have forecasted that the challenge would be decided by the next Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple process of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, an essential crossroads on the path to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms recounts how these 400-peculiar riflemen beat back wave after influx of French infantry until they were finally forced to withdraw but only after supporting Napoleon for such a long time that he lost the entire contest. Their actions alone decided the most influential battle in Western history.
