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The Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815 was Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle. It took place around 15 km south of Brussels near the village of Waterloo, then part of the Kingdom of the United Netherlands and now in Belgium. The defeat of the French led by Napoleon against the Allied troops under the English General Wellington and the Prussian Field Marshal Blücher ended Napoleon's rule of the Hundred Days and led to the end of the French Empire with his final abdication on June 22, 1815.

"Die Weltminute von Waterloo" ist ein Teil von Stefan Zweigs "Sternstunden der Menschheit", eine Sammlung historischer Prosa-Miniaturen. Die acht sprachlich verdichteten Kapitel handeln von Napoleons bedeutender Schlacht bei Waterloo. Fesselnd werden dabei die wetterbedingten Schwierigkeiten der Truppen sowie die Rolle des Generals Emmanuel de Grouchy beleuchtet.

En medio de los bailes, de los galanteos, de las intrigas y de las discusiones del Congreso de Viena, la noticia aterradora cae y estalla como una bala de cañón: Napoleón, el león prisionero, ha destrozado su jaula de Elba. Uno tras otro van llegando los mensajes: ha conquistado Lyón y ha expulsado al Rey; las tropas de fanáticas banderas corren a su encuentro; ya está en París, en las Tullerías. Han sido inútiles Leipzig y los veinte años de una guerra homicida.

Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres. BOOK 1: WATERLOO: Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his course towards La Hulpe.