Weatherday: Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever

It will be a dry and mostly sunny day. Temperatures getting up to 18deg in light northerly breezes.

On this day in 1815, Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo by a combined force of British and Prussian soldiers, ending 23 years of France warring with various European powers. He was later exiled to St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died.

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