On June 18th, 1815, 400 Hanoverian soldiers were the only thing standing between defeat and victory for the alliance against Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
On March 9th 1848, the Federal Convention in Frankfurt made black, red and gold the German national colours. Like their French predecessors of 1789, the Germans now had a tricolour to symbolise nation and revolution.
Thousands of history buffs in 19th-century costumes took to a battlefield outside Leipzig, Germany, on Sunday to re-enact the bloody Battle of the Nations on the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's decisive loss.
Thousands of war-gamers will re-enact one of Europe's most important battles outside Leipzig on Sunday, 200 years after French emperor Napoleon suffered a critical defeat there.
Thousands of spectators are expected at the battlefields south of Leipzig over the weekend to watch around 800 history buffs re-enact the Battle of the Nations, which proved decisive in Napoleon’s eventual defeat.
