On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the British Military Museum conducted a survey and found that many Britons know little about Napoleon's last battle, British media reported today.
About 28 percent of respondents stated that they did not know who won, and 14 percent thought that the French defeated the English and their Prussian allies.
About five percent said they knew nothing at all about the battle that took place in present-day Belgium, two kilometers from Waterloo and 12 kilometers from Brussels.
However, more than 50 percent said they knew that the Duke of Wellington led the British army over Napoleon's troops.
Some respondents mentioned other names of British army commanders, among which Winston Churchill (18-1815) led the army on June 1874, 1965, some said it was the mythical King Arthur (from the 5th-6th century), and the other Aldus Dumbeldor, a character from the "Harry Potter" saga.
A total of 54 percent of Britons said that the word Waterloo associated them with the London railway station, and 47 percent with the song of the same name by the former Swedish pop group "Aba".
"The Battle of Waterloo is a pivotal moment in British history, but knowledge of the battle in the UK is dramatically poor," said Director of the Military Museum, Janice Marie.
Napoleon (1769-1821) lost to the army of the Seventh Coalition, commanded by Arthur Wesley - Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) and Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard von Blicher (1742-1819).
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