Battle of Waterloo

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Waterloo in popular culture

• The word Waterloo has entered the English language as a word signifying a decisive and final outcome. For example: "to meet one's Waterloo". It usually bears a negative connotation, since Waterloo was Napoleon's downfall.
• "The Adventures of Gerard" (1903) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle contains a chapter "How the Brigadier Bore Himself at Waterloo", about his fictional hero Brigadier Etienne Gerard. The chapter consists of two short stories which were originally published separately. Project Gutenberg:The Adventures of Gerard (Audio Book)
• "Waterloo: Sharpe's Final Adventure Campaign" is a novel by Bernard Cornwell, which sets his fictional hero Richard Sharpe at the battle on the staff of the non-fictional Prince of Orange. The book was later adapted for television by the ITV and starred Sean Bean as Sharpe.
• Waterloo (movie) was a film of 1970, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. It was the story of the preliminary events and the battle, and is remembered for its lavish battle scenes.
• The band ABBA made a song titled Waterloo that won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974.
• The band Iced Earth made a song about the battle titled "Waterloo" which is on their "The Glorious Burden" album, 2004.
• The famous quote attributed to Wellington ("The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton") was certainly an invention; unlike his brilliant older brother, Wellington got poor grades at Eton; on one of his rare visits back there, the only athletic activities he could remember were skipping across a brook, and a fisticuffs with a fellow student.
• In the video game Psychonauts, an insane asylum employee, and descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte, loses his sanity after continuously losing a game of "Waterloo" with a patient, and develops a split personality between himself and his forefather.