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(AMSTERDAM). Rinah U’Tephila La’E-l [prayer of thanksgiving for the victory at the Battle of Waterloo]. pp. (2), 6. Browned, opening leaf loose. Modern calf. 8vo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 2722. Amsterdam: Proops 1851 The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.