The Duke and the Emperor

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On June 18, 1815, England's Duke of Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France, met in battle near the municipality of Waterloo, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (now Belgium), and the rest, as they say, is history. It was Wellington, you may remember, aided by Prussian troops under Gebhard von Blūcher (and other members of the Seventh Coalition), who won, and Napoleon who met his Waterloo. Cambridge University has been collecting artifacts, including books and maps, of the battle ever since and, on May 1, will be putting them on public exhibit. For those of us who may not be able to make it to England to see them in person, though, it has put them online in an interactive video (regular video available as well) that also explains the painstaking digitization process: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-32167860