200th anniversary of an event concluded on 20 June 2015. The anniversary that began on 18 June ended with a re-enactment of the moment when the news of someone’s defeat reached London.
A horse-drawn chaise post retracted the route taken in 1815 from Old Royal Naval College, in Greenwich, to St James's Square, where news from Belgium was delivered to the Prince Regent.
Who was defeated and what was this 1815 event?
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Napoleon’s French army was defeated by Duke of Wellington’s allied forces in the Battle of Waterloo