Waterloo
Belgian battlefield site
Waterloo is a town in Belgium, site of the 1815 battle where Napoleon Bonaparte was decisively defeated by British and Prussian forces, ending his rule.
The name has become synonymous with catastrophic, final defeat: The campaign became his Waterloo.
Waterloo is also a major London railway station. (Lowercase waterloo means a decisive defeat.)
Western European constitutional monarchy
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
landmark · bicentennial · reenactment · museum · pilgrimage · commemoration · preserved · tourism
Southernmost national capital globally
- NapoleonFrench emperor, military genius
- cavalryMounted military force
- infantryGround combat troops
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
muskets · flank · regiment · soldiers · generals · frontline · cannonade · charge
Drainage area boundary
- pivotalVitally important, deciding
- decisiveQuick to conclude
- momentousOf great significance
- climacticRelating to the peak
game-changer · defining · crucial · milestone · transformation · epoch · endgame · culmination
Belgium
Western European constitutional monarchy
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
heritage · landmark · bicentennial · reenactment · museum · pilgrimage · commemoration · preserved · tourism · legacy
Wellington
Southernmost national capital globally
artillery · muskets · flank · regiment · soldiers · generals · frontline · cannonade · charge · squares
watershed
Drainage area boundary
climactic · game-changer · defining · crucial · milestone · transformation · epoch · endgame · culmination · fate
- ABBADancing Queen, Fernando, SOS, Chiquitita, Voulez-Vous
- Battle SitesGettysburg, Normandy, Antietam, Stalingrad, Verdun
- BattlesAntietam, Leipzig, Gettysburg, Bunker Hill, Austerlitz
- BelgiumBrussels, Belgium, Flanders, Antwerp, Bruges
- British PlacesBuckingham Palace, England, Tower of London, London, Big Ben
- Canadian CitiesToronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa
Waterlootriumph
Resounding, celebrated victory
victory · finest hour · conquest · crowning achievement · decisive victory
Waterlooredemption
Recovery or moral restoration
resurrection · second act · comeback · renaissance · vindication
- Battle of Waterloo1815 Belgian confrontation
- met one's WaterlooSuffered ultimate defeat
- meeting one's WaterlooSuffering a decisive defeat
- meet one's WaterlooExperience decisive, final defeat
- Waterloo BridgeLondon bridge over Thames