Waterloo bicentenary celebrates
Waterloo (Belgium): This week Belgium commemorates 200th anniversary of Waterloo battle with spectacular events and mock drills. Waterloo battle is considered to be the face of Europe, at a time when the continent's unity was under threat.
European royals will attend a solemn memorial service at the battlefield near Brussels where French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's dreams of European conquest were crushed by British and Prussian forces on June 18, 1815.
Nearly 200,000 spectators are also expe...
