napoleonic british line infantry waterloo campaignWith the return of the French tyrant Napoleon Bonaparte from his exile on the island of Elba, Britain and her allies of the 7th Alliance once again prepared to face the might of the French Army in what would be known as the Hundred Days Campaign. The rain lashed weekend of 17th and 18th June 1815 saw the Allied forces end twenty years of continuous warfare warfare that spanned the globe in a series of violent and bloody battles at Quatre Bras, Ligny,