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The tune is quoted near the end of César Cui's opera Mademoiselle Fifi (composed 1902/1903), set in France during the Franco–Prussian War. In Lewis Milestone 's 1930 film All Quiet on the Western Front , the song is played at the end of the first scene as schoolboys, whipped into a patriotic frenzy by their instructor, abandon their studies ...
French forces and Napoleon never reached Waterloo itself, and Napoleon did not surrender personally to become a prisoner of war, but he had to surrender control over the battlefield, and chased by Prussian cavalry, the remaining forces under his command retreated in disarray back towards Paris where he abdicated, surrendering aspirations and ...
In 1854, five years after Schneckenburger’s death, his poem was set to music by Karl Wilhelm (1815–1873). The Watch on the Rhine was the rousing tune sung by German soldiers as they headed into battle during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71.
"Waterloo" is the first single from the Swedish pop group ABBA's second album of the same name, and their first under the Atlantic label in the US. This was ...
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, [b] often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.
The Battle of Waterloo saw Napoleon's Imperial French army take on several allied forces, including the Austrians, Prussians, Russians, and British, to name just a few.
12 sty 2004 · As the title implies, this song describes the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon’s defeat before his first exile
