Waterloo Plans 200th Anniversary of Battle

2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo — where the British Duke of Wellington, with a little help from his Prussian allies, finally defeated Napoleon, the French emperor who dreamed of uniting and ruling the whole of Europe.

There are big plans to mark the anniversary, which is June 18th, but it's not without controversy. Who, for example, will play Napoleon when the battle is re-enacted?

From Waterloo, in present-day Belgium, the BBC’s Europe correspondent Chris Morris reports.

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