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During the 100 Days Campaign Belgium again became battlefield the decision fell in the Battle of Waterloo. Upon Napoleons defeat at Waterloo in 1815, the allies amalgamated Belgium and Holland into the United Kingdom of the Netherlands under Prince William of Orange. Religious, financial and political differences between the Dutch and the Belgians caused 15 years of controversy. The army commanded by Wellington at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo included 2 infantry divisions and cavalry brigades of the newly. unified Netherlands or Dutch-Belgium army. Some authors writing about the campaign of the 1815 and the Battle of Waterloo overly relies on the British memories and dispatches. It is probably due to either no understanding any other language but English, or intellectual laziness as they never took the trouble of reading Belgian or Dutch memories. They took 80 percent off the performance score of anyone not having had the good sense to have been born English. I maybe wrong but I doubt it. It seams like the Dutch, the Belgians, the Nasaauers, the KGL and the entire Prussian army disappeared from English books and maps. Surely Wellingtons behavior towards his Spanish allies in the Peninsula was no less egregious that towards the Dutch Belgians and Prussians in 1815. Had the Allies lost at Waterloo, no doubt Wellington would have had to reluctantly and bluffly point out that the failure was all the fault of the Dutch, Belgians and Prussians!
 

Dutch Belgian Army 1815 Continued