Its exhibits spans conflicts from the Battle of Waterloo to Iraq and Afghanistan today.

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The school is named after Battle of Waterloo victor, the Duke of Wellington, and seeks to produce future leaders.

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Helena, where he had been sent into exile by the British after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

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Thus the battle of Waterloo, apparently, is a trivial historical subject, but the distribution of eye-colour among Frenchmen is not.

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The exhibition, which runs for a year, also features other clothing including a military uniform worn at the Battle of Waterloo.

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Samuel Gibson was one of the last survivors of the Battle of Waterloo and was later a patient at St Lawrence's.

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France at the time was a global superpower, ruled by Emperor Napoleon III, its military machine undefeated since the Battle of Waterloo a half-century before.

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In 1815, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by a joint British, German and Dutch force under the command of the Duke of Wellington and General Gebhard von Bluecher.

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Further on, a hammock of 17th century admiral Cornelius de Witt hangs above the simple campaign bed of William of Orange, the Dutch prince wounded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

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Highlights included the Battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar, the Boer War, the Battle of Britain and even the Falklands war, all despatched in a couple of minutes each.

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At Waterloo station, the coffin was placed on a train drawn by a Battle of Britain locomotive named Winston Churchill.

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