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  • Waxwork models of Napoleon's generals (incl Marechal Soult, centre), re-enact the night before the Battle of Waterloo forming an exhibit inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Waxwork models of Napoleon's generals (incl Marechal Soult, centre), re-enact the night before the Battle of Waterloo forming an exhibit inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • A young couple admire the Bomber Command War Memorial on 16th March 2017, in Green Park, London, England. The 9-foot (2.7 m) bronze sculpture of seven aircrew, designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson look as though they have just returned from a bombing mission and left their aircraft. The figures represent L-R: Navigator, Flight Engineer, Mid-upper gunner, Pilot, Bomb aimer, Rear gunner and Wireless operator. The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park, London, commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War. The memorial was built to mark the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew from Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries of the Commonwealth, as well as civilians of all nations killed during raids. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the memorial on 28 June 2012, the year of her Diamond Jubilee.
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  • The sculpture forming the Bomber Command War Memorial on 16th March 2017, in Green Park, London, England. The 9-foot (2.7 m) bronze sculpture of seven aircrew, designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson look as though they have just returned from a bombing mission and left their aircraft. The figures represent L-R: Navigator, Flight Engineer, Mid-upper gunner, Pilot, Bomb aimer, Rear gunner and Wireless operator. The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park, London, commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War. The memorial was built to mark the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew from Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries of the Commonwealth, as well as civilians of all nations killed during raids. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the memorial on 28 June 2012, the year of her Diamond Jubilee.
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  • Waiting in line for a departing flight, an airline captain patiently queues with his flight baggage along with passengers. Rather than being on duty and flying the aircraft himself, he is travelling home as a passenger. On many commercial flights, off-duty air crew position as passengers. Airlines plan complicated logistics with cabin and cockpit crew members' duty rosters. This man's four stripes denotes his seniority as a captain who flies right-hand seat, in command of a airliner. In the US, pilots might also have National Guard careers flying jet fighters in times of conflict while off-duty in airline shifts. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • The sculpture forming the Bomber Command War Memorial on 16th March 2017, in Green Park, London, England. The 9-foot (2.7 m) bronze sculpture of seven aircrew, designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson look as though they have just returned from a bombing mission and left their aircraft. The figures represent L-R: Navigator, Flight Engineer, Mid-upper gunner, Pilot, Bomb aimer, Rear gunner and Wireless operator. The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park, London, commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War. The memorial was built to mark the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew from Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries of the Commonwealth, as well as civilians of all nations killed during raids. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the memorial on 28 June 2012, the year of her Diamond Jubilee.
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  • The elderly Prussian commander Blucher sits on his horse, a waxwork exhibit inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The head of British police's anti-terrorism squad, George Churchill-Coleman speaks at a press conference in the summer of 1991 in London, UK. Ex-Metropolitan Police Commander Churchill-Coleman OBE (1938-2015) headed the anti-terror squad for seven years as they battled the IRA's mainland bombing campaign of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was killed in a motoring collision in January 2015.
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  • In the foreground we see the strong forearm of a British army soldier whose blood group O-Negative has been tattooed in large letters beneath an image of a Japanese Geisha girl. He also wears a watch with aq green strap matching his working army fatigues uniform. Behind him are two part-time territorial army conscripts who are sitting on their  army-issued rucksack Bergens awaiting further orders to serve on active duty from Sandhurst military academy to the Balkans during Operation Resolute, the  National Support Element to support NATO action. The dominating figure in the foreground stands upright though we don't see his face. His two conscripts sit on the ground looking dejected or perhaps worried about their forthcoming duties. They are still in civillian clothing, jeans and t-shirts but will soon change into uniform.
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  • The captain of a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus prepares his aircraft for departure to Colombo.
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  • The flight-deck crew of a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus - registration number 4R-ADE - perform a series of pre-flight checks before a scheduled departure, while on the apron at Malé international airport in the Republic of the Maldives. Featuring electronic instruments it is known as a 'glass cockpit' and using a printed checklist manual, they methodically work through dozens of complex systems that require accurate input before the aircraft is ready for take off. Flight navigation computers, fuel and engine settings and radio frequencies all need programming by the two pilots, the captain on the left and the First Officer on the right. These modern airliners have only two pilots in a modern flight-deck as technology superceeded the need for a third member, the flight-engineers of a previous era of aviation.
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  • The back of  famous greying-blonde head belonging to Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic is seen during SpaceShipTwo's replica model unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Galactic. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than future everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starting in 2009/10. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness.
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  • In the kitchen on a Sunday morning, space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts reads the Sunday newspaper while his wife empties the dishwasher in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters facility near Las Cruces.  .
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  • A European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control monitors the rocket systems hours before satellite launch
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  • Ordinary husband and wife Mark and Christine Easterfield stand awkwardly at the dirty picket fence with their Volvo car parked on the gravel drive outside their home near Cambridge, England. They are among the thousands of people who have paid the $200,000 fee for a seat on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flights. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.  ...
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  • European Space Agency technicians at Ariane launch control monitor rocket systems hours before a satellite launch
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  • Virgin boss, Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic directors Will Whitehorn and Stephen Attenborough, talk to the media during the unveiling of their SpaceShipTwo concept model's unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.  Now under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like a Stanley Kubrick movie set from '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than the future for everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starts in around 2009.  .Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness..Launched in September 2004 by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic will invest up to $250 million to develop the world's first commercial space tourism business with the building, testing and flying of five space shipShipTwos and two mother ships.  It is expected that within the first full year of commercial operations Virgin Galactic will enable 500 people to fulfil their dreams of becoming astronauts; in the last 4 decades the world has seen fewer than 500 astronauts. Flights start around 2009..28/09/2006
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  • After heavy rain and the subsequent flooding, two lone canoeists paddle down the centre of the A27 near Chichester, West Sussex. The Dual carriageway has been completely submerged to approximately 1.5 metres and only the road sign with its directional arrow is visible above the surface which is rippling in a faint breeze. The men in red and yellow kayaks look inexperienced in boating activities and their clothing is not suitable for water sports. Even so, they are speeding down the highway that is otherwise empty of all other vehicles and they have the water and space to themselves without the fear of collision.
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  • A couple show their official inviitation to a formal Buckingham Palace garden party to meet the Queen along with many more...The Queens' garden parties are held ever summer, allowing ordinary men and women from diverse members of society the chance to walk the Palace grounds and meet others from all walks of life. Some may be from the armed services and others , merely known for their charitable work or individual merit.
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  • A young lady European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control monitors rocket systems hours before a satellite launch
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  • Designer Phillippe Starck standing at the nose of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during its unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Starck is design consultant for Virgin's space company and for SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA.  Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.  Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.  .
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  • Wearing a large green helmet with the number 26 painted on the front, a worried-looking black soldier recruit gazes into the distance in front of a white army  instructor at the large Garrison at Catterick, England. Here, the Parachute Regiment (The Paras) - hold part of their famous basic training programme called Pegasus (P) Company. The most notorious selection procedure in the British Army. After initial recruitment, each student is sent to either pass or fail a set of 9 events from which a total score of 90 points is possible. 58% or more passes, less fails. Events like the 18 mile Forced March followed by a further 5 miles can earn 10 points though this will inevitably prove too much for many young man, desperate to pass P Company and earn his prestigious beret (Like the Foreign Legion).
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  • A European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control oversees the flow of procedures hours before a rocket launch
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  • Police tape and a makeshift sign warn of a lane closure due to flooding in the village of Lavant, West Sussex. Afternoon sunshine illuminates the roughly-made board with red painted letters which says 'Road Closed'. The rippling water is less than a foot deep and we can see the broken white centre line beneath the surface but the linked posts that border the village green are also submerged. Even so, traffic is prohibited from passing through there for the risk of grounding or damaging engines. Lavant is a village just north of the city of Chichester. It is made up of two parts, Mid Lavant and East Lavant, and takes its name from the River Lavant which flows from East Dean. This area has been prone to flooding for several years and houses around the rising rivers can be blighted with insurance companies refusing future cover.
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  • A replica model of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo during its unveiling Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, NYC. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like a Stanley Kubrick movie set from '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than the future for everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starts in around 2009. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. From these circular portholes, astronauts will be able to see 1,000 miles having taken off from the new Spaceport America, New Mexico. ..
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  • An inconguous landscape of modern industrial warehousing architecture and poorly-made road at Kimberly Clark's Northfleet Mill
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  • An inconguous landscape of modern industrial warehousing architecture and poorly-made road at Kimberly Clark's Northfleet Mill
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  • An executive peers down on his employees on a giant screen, addressing his loyal audience of his staff who have congregated at an Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The hall is packed and his disciples listen and watch intently and obediently to watch their Leader speak like a Big Brother character, who ernestly and sincerely talks down to them despite being dressed casually for such a large event. Each employee will attend this brainstorming fair where later, motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead.
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  • A European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control monitors rocket systems hours before a satellite launch
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  • Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson and former Apollo (11) astronaut Buzz Aldrin chat after Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo's unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than future everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starting in 2009/10. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness.
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  • Sam and Eve Branson, son and mother of tycoon Sir Richard, relax together on a roof terrace in Manhattan, New York. Both are queueing to join the hundreds already having paid their $200,000 for Virgin Galactic's space tourism rides in 2009. Launched in September 2004 by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic will invest up to $250 million to develop the world's first commercial space tourism business with the building, testing and flying of five space shipShipTwos and two mother ships. It is expected that within the first full year of commercial operations Virgin Galactic will enable 500 people to fulfil their dreams of becoming astronauts. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness.
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  • A computer-generated astronaut lies down on board a space flight on Virgin Galactic's  SpaceShipTwo's,  unveiled as a replica model during Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York. Under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than future everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starting in 2009/10. Aboard the space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each paying $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience 6 minutes of weighlessness. From these circular portholes, astronauts will see 1,000 miles having taken off from the new Spaceport America, New Mexico. .
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  • A portrait of space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.  ..
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  • A portrait of space-suited frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.  ....
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  • While on ceremonial duties at the Queen's Buckingham Palace, members of the Welsh Guards prepare the finer details of uniform presentation at the Wellington barracks, opposite the Palace in central London, England. Buffing up their bearskin hats and brushing away any specks of dust from shoulders, they each help the other appear as near-perfect as they can before parading in front of thousands during the Changing of the Guard or at other times, during tropping of the Colour on the Queen's birthday occasion. Formed in 1915 by order of King George V,  have fought in every war since but are housed at the Wellington Barracks purely for ceremonial reasons, also serving on active duty in the world's trouble spots, where their professionalism is demanded by their British Ministry of Defence masters.
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  • Guests arrive at Buckingham Palace's gates for a special garden party in afternoon sunshine. .. The Queens' garden parties are held ever summer, allowing ordinary men and women from diverse members of society the chance to walk the Palace grounds and meet others from all walks of life. Some may be from the armed services and others , merely known for their charitable work or individual merit.
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  • Ordinary husband and wife Mark and Christine Easterfield stand awkwardly with their Volvo car outside their large home near Cambridge, England. They are among the thousands of people who have each paid the $200,000 fare for seats on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flights. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.   Flights start around 2009/10 from a Mojave desert test facility but therafter, at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million headquarters and mission control facility near Las Cruces.  .
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  • Frequent flyer astronaut Alan Watts is presented to the media and space industry commentators by Sir Richard Branson during the Wired NextFest science fair, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City in his north London home, England. Alan, 51, runs an electrical company and qualified for a free space space flight after being contacted by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company, having accumulated 2 million air miles on the Virgin Atlantic flight network. Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness. Flights start around 2009/10 at the new Philippe Starck-designed SpacePort America, New Mexico, USA. a 27 square mile, $225 million facility near Las Cruces.  .
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  • Accountancy employees watch their Chairman speaking at their corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel
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  • Employees listen to an executive at their corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel
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  • An inconguous landscape of modern industrial architecture and a foreground of a patchy, poorly-made service road at Northfleet, near Gravesend, Kent England. This is Kimberly Clark's Northfleet Mill which manufactures paper-based products for the hygiene and health market such as tissues and nappies (diapers). The word concrete has been sprayed by aerosol on the ground along with a locating X that marks a confusing and ironic spot for concrete to be found. The high-sided blue walls of the mill factory are smooth and unlike the rough road and to the right the sky is overcast while on the right, it is blue. Kimberly-Clark is a leading global health and hygiene company employing more than 55,000 people worldwide and posting sales of $16.7 billion.
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  • The cockpit of a Lockheed Martin-built C-130J Hercules airlifter. Externally similar to the classic Hercules in general appearance, the J model sports considerably updated technology. These differences include new Rolls-Royce AE 2100 D3 turboprops with Dowty R391 composite scimitar propellers, digital avionics (including Head-Up Displays (HUDs) for each pilot). During more than 50 years of service the Hercules family has the longest continuous production run of any military aircraft in history. Strategic, automated low-level airdrops keep 60 road transport vehicles and up to 120 supple troops off hostile roads using only three flight crew.
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  • Arranged on a hill with their barrels pointing upwards and lights glowing, weathered Challenger 1 tank crews of the 1st Batallion Royal Tank Regiment are stationary at Tidworth Barracks, England. Their turrets are all pointing to the viewer and the helmet heads of their commanders and drivers can be seen  protruding from their respective places. The Royal Tank Regiment is an armoured regiment of the British Army but tanks were first used at Flers in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Challenger 1 was the main battle tank (MBT) of the British Army from 1983 until superseded by the Challenger 2 in the mid 1990s. Challenger 1 took part in Operation Desert Storm where the Iraqi forces failed to take a single vehicle out of combat while Challenger destroyed roughly 300 Iraqi tanks.
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  • Interior of the Chapel at the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The statue of Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding,  outside St Clement Danes (RAF) church, on 17th April 2018, in London, England. Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was an officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as a fighter pilot and then as commanding officer of No. 16 Squadron during the First World War. During the inter-war years he became Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain and then joined the Air Council as Air Member for Supply and Research. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defence, and hence, the defeat of Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Britain.
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  • One of scarred Chestnut trees, remains of a wood on the Waterloo battlefield where French troops died in their thousands outside the walls of Hougoumont Farm, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The trees trunks are still pockmarked by musket fire with holes still embedded in the bark. The chateau became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The Duke of Wellington sits on his horse, a waxwork exhibit inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The tombstones of Sergeant-Major Edward Cotton of the 7th Hussars and Captain John Lucie Blackman, an officer of the Coldstream Guards, inside the walls of Hougoumont Farm on the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors climb and descend the steep gradient of 225 steps, 43 metre high Waterloo Lion's battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors climb and descend the steep gradient of 225 steps, 43 metre high Waterloo Lion's battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The Prince of Orange sits on his horse, a waxwork exhibit inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The tombstone of Sergeant-Major Edward Cotton of the 7th Hussars who helped defend the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the battle of Waterloo, 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Cotton survived the battle and returned to the area to lead battlefield tours, dying in 1849, interred here then re-buried elsewhere in 1890.The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The tombstone of Captain John Lucie Blackman, an officer of the Coldstream Guards, killed by a French bullet in Hougoumont Farm, at the very end of the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors climb and descend the 225 steps, 43 metre high Waterloo Lion's battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors climb and descend the steep gradient of 225 steps, 43 metre high Waterloo Lion's battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The statue of Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding,  outside St Clement Danes (RAF) church, on 17th April 2018, in London, England. Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was an officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as a fighter pilot and then as commanding officer of No. 16 Squadron during the First World War. During the inter-war years he became Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain and then joined the Air Council as Air Member for Supply and Research. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defence, and hence, the defeat of Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Britain.
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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors tour conical 43 metre high Waterloo Lion's battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors on the top of  the 43 metre high Waterloo Lion's battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors on the summit of the Lion's Mound overlook a landscape of fields and farming land and looking in the direction of Napoleon's massed French lines during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The 360 degree Panorma showing the Battle of Waterloo at the battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The statue of Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding,  outside St Clement Danes (RAF) church, on 17th April 2018, in London, England. Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was an officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as a fighter pilot and then as commanding officer of No. 16 Squadron during the First World War. During the inter-war years he became Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain and then joined the Air Council as Air Member for Supply and Research. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defence, and hence, the defeat of Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Britain.
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  • A landscape of fields and farming land looking in the direction of Napoleon's massed French lines during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • One of three scarred Chestnut trees, remains of a wood on the Waterloo battlefield where French troops died in their thousands outside the walls of Hougoumont Farm, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The trees trunks are still pockmarked by musket fire with holes still embedded in the bark. The chateau became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors on the top of  the 43 metre high Waterloo Lion's battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • An Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is loaded into the back of a British Army Land Rover ambulance to join the downfacing trainers of a collapsed colleague, after retiring  from an endurance race. Recruits run a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding,. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perserverence or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
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  • Defence manufacturer Raytheon exhibition stand at the Farnborough Air Show, England. Raytheon Company is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, security and civil markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 92 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems.
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  • Visitors on the summit of the Lion's Mound overlook a landscape of fields and farming land and looking in the direction of Napoleon's massed French lines during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • In late afternoon, three conscript soldiers  of the Polish army are dressed in brown uniforms eating ice cream cones in Plac Zamkowy, outside the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland. The Polish army (Wojsko Polskie) is the name applied to the military forces of Poland. The name has been used since the early 19th century, although it can be used to refer to earlier formations as well. Polish Armed Forces consist of the Army (Wojsko L?dowe), Navy (Marynarka Wojenna) and Air Force (Si?y Powietrzne) branches and are under the command of the Ministry of Defense (Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej). The combined Polish armed forces consist of 215,000 active duty personnel and in addition 450,000 reserves. The armed forces are made up of conscripts who serve for a period of 9 months, and professional soldiers.
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  • The 360 degree Panorma showing the Battle of Waterloo at the battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exterior of the Chapel at the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The battlefield memorial inside the walled Hougoumont Farm, to the soldiers of Napoleon's Grande Armee, killed at Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The battlefield memorial inside the walled Hougoumont Farm, to the soldiers of Napoleon's Grande Armee, killed at Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exterior of the Chapel at the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Interior of the Chapel at the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Veteran BBC journalist and broadcaster, Jenni Murray enters Downing Street to interview Prime Minister Theresa May about the Suffragette movement, on 5th February 2018, in London, England. Dame Jennifer Susan "Jenni" Murray, DBE is an English journalist and broadcaster, best known for presenting BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Murray was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to broadcasting in 1999 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours.
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  • The statue of Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding,  outside St Clement Danes (RAF) church, on 17th April 2018, in London, England. Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was an officer in the Royal Air Force. He served as a fighter pilot and then as commanding officer of No. 16 Squadron during the First World War. During the inter-war years he became Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain and then joined the Air Council as Air Member for Supply and Research. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defence, and hence, the defeat of Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Britain.
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  • One of scarred Chestnut trees, remains of a wood on the Waterloo battlefield where French troops died in their thousands outside the walls of Hougoumont Farm, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The trees trunks are still pockmarked by musket fire with holes still embedded in the bark. The chateau became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • One of scarred Chestnut trees, remains of a wood on the Waterloo battlefield where French troops died in their thousands outside the walls of Hougoumont Farm, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The trees trunks are still pockmarked by musket fire with holes still embedded in the bark. The chateau became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors climb and descend the steep gradient of 225 steps, 43 metre high Waterloo Lion's battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exterior of the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. <br />
The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • A memorial for Captain Thomas Craufurd of the 3rd Guards who died at Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • A memorial for Captain Thomas Craufurd of the 3rd Guards who died at Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The tombstone of Sergeant-Major Edward Cotton of the 7th Hussars who helped defend the strategically-important Hougoumont Farm during the battle of Waterloo, 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Cotton survived the battle and returned to the area to lead battlefield tours, dying in 1849, interred here then re-buried elsewhere in 1890.The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon's Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • From a tour bus is the Lion's Mound on the Waterloo battlefield,  on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • A statue of the French Imperial Eagle, still watching over the battlefield exhibitions of the Panorama and Lion's Mound at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The French Imperial Eagle refers to the figure of an eagle on a staff carried into battle as a standard by the Grande Armée of Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars. Although they were presented with regimental colours, the regiments of Napoleon I tended to carry at their head the imperial eagle. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • A statue of the French Imperial Eagle, still watching over the battlefield exhibitions of the Panorama and Lion's Mound at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The French Imperial Eagle refers to the figure of an eagle on a staff carried into battle as a standard by the Grande Armée of Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars. Although they were presented with regimental colours, the regiments of Napoleon I tended to carry at their head the imperial eagle. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors climb and descend the steep gradient of 225 steps, 43 metre high Waterloo Lion's battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors climb and descend the steep gradient of 225 steps, 43 metre high Waterloo Lion's battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Visitors on the top of  the 43 metre high Waterloo Lion's battlefield Mound, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The Lion's Mound (Butte du Lion is a large conical artificial hill completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle. From the summit, the hill offers a 360 degree vista of the battlefield. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • A landscape of fields and farming land looking in the direction of Napoleon's massed French lines during the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • The landscape of fields and farming land including La Haye Sainte farm, the location of the Battle of Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. La Haye Sainte has changed very little since it played a crucial part in the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.<br />
It was defended by about 400 British and German troops, hopelessly outnumbered by attacking French but held out until the late afternoon when they retired because their ammunition had run out. If Napoleon Bonaparte's army had captured La Haye Sainte earlier in the day, almost certainly he would have broken through the allied centre and defeated the Duke of Wellington's army. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • A waxwork model of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte resting the night before the Battle of Waterloo, forms an exhibit inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
    waterloo_battlefield-05-25-03-2017.jpg
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