Battle of Waterloo anniversary: The story of Napolean's defeat in numbers

Essential facts about the historic battle, in which Britain and her allies defeated France, on 18 June, 1815

Waterloo (Getty) (Getty)

Today is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

The bicentennial has been marked by a memorial – Britain's first – at Waterloo station in London, to commemorate the soldiers who died.

5,000: The number of Napoleon's troops that advanced on Hougoumont, Wellington's most well-defended garrison.

Alan Larsen as the Duke of Wellington (Jon Super)

12.30PM:Time at which the French broke through the gates; the British forced the gates shut trapping 40 French soldiers inside.

Lady Butler’s painting Scotland Forever! – the Greys actually advanced at the trot because of the broken ground (Alamy)

68,000: Number of Anglo-Allied troops (including German, Belgian and Dutch units) led by the Duke of Wellington.

A woman dusts the frame of a painting of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence (AFP)

72,000: Number of French troops led by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Napoleon Bonaparte (Getty Images)

13,700: Anglo-Allied soldiers killed.

Men dressed as soldiers from the Grenadier Company during the Waterloo Campaign ride a escalator at Waterloo Station in London.

24,000: French soldiers killed.

Horror and heroism: French cuirassiers charging a British square during the Battle of Waterloo (Getty Images)

5,600: Prussian soldiers killed.

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6: Members of the so-called 'Seventh Coalition' that defeated France at Waterloo. The belligerents were Britain, the Netherlands, Hanover, Nassau, Brunswick and Prussia.