The London Victory Parade of 1815 was a British victory parade

Victory parade

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 held after the defeat of Napoleon in the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

 and his exile

Exile

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 to Elba

Elba

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. The parade took place on June 20, 1815 at Hyde Park

Hyde Park, London

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 in London

London

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Over 15,000 troops attended the parade, most of them British. Other groups in attendance included Cossacks, Highlanders (who were an independent regiment at the time), and other small continental contingents.