1 British Impressionist Antique Military Battle Of Waterloo Oil Painting Red Coat Soldiers Defending Against French Imperial Old Guard.Subject dramatic Military Battle of Waterloo scene view of The British front line red coat soldiers defending holding the line against the advancing French Imperial Old Guard.You can see 2 dead British soldiers laying on the floor, at the back a drummer boy wearing a green uniform. Soldiers are bayonetting each other and hitting each other with rifle stock butts. In the distant background are further lines of soldiers and clouds of white smoke from exploding cannon shots.The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium). A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition.One of these was a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Na...