The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora on April 10, 1815, was the most powerful volcanic blast in history. The immediate damage was devastating: Entire villages were gone, the landscapes of Sumbawa ...

The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 French Open. Amélie Mauresmo, the former world No. 1 who is the tournament director for the French Open, has rejected suggestions that the lack of women ...

He pushed a Prussian army back at the Battle of Ligny on 15 June 1815, and three days later attacked an Anglo-Allied force led by the Duke of Wellington near the village of Waterloo.

"Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been ...

The defeat of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 is widely believed to be due to the inclement weather in England. But a new study suggests that Napoleon’s misfortune ...

The tourism arm of Waterloo will have a Christmas-themed community block party, Waterloo Lights the Night, to kick off Main Street Waterloo's Winter Wonder'Loo shopping season.

The victory at Waterloo came at a heavy cost: Estimates vary, but historians place Wellington’s casualties around 15,000 and Blücher’s at about 8,000. Napoleon suffered roughly 25,000 ...

WATERLOO − Families from all over the Cedar Valley converged at Anton’s Garden at the corner of Fourth and Sycamore streets in downtown Waterloo for the fourth annual Waterloo Lights the Night ...

WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL)This year’s kickoff celebration will be on Saturday night, November 30, downtown at Anton’s Garden, 6-8 pm. 518 Sycamore Street. The annual Tree Lighting will be held at 6 ...

The Thursday evening night market hosted by the Uptown Waterloo BIA will have a rainbow theme this week, with queer and allied vendors, drag performances by Drew and Sasha Tease, and ‘One Big ...