The Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) was the last major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), fought by a French army under Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) against two armies of the Seventh Coalition. Waterloo resulted in the end of both Napoleon’s career and the First French Empire and is often considered one of history’s most important battles.
On 1 March 1815, Napoleon returned from exile to regain control of his empire, beginning the period of the Hundred Days. The great powers of Europe responded immediately by branding him an outlaw and declaring war. The decisive Battle of Waterloo was fought between the towns of Mont-Saint-Jean and Waterloo in modern Belgium, then part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Napoleon’s objective was to crush the Anglo-allied army of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, before it could be reinforced by a nearby Prussian army under Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Napoleon nearly succeeded in his goal when his men captured the farmhouse of La Haye Sainte and stood poised to break through the allied center. However, the timely arrival of several Prussian corps and a failed charge by the French Imperial Guard dashed Napoleon’s hopes of victory. Four days after his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon abdicated for a second time and was exiled to the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, where he would die six years later.
The Battle of Waterloo has often been regarded as one of the most decisive battles in history; it brought an end to the Napoleonic period and ushered in a new political era known as the Concert of Europe. Additionally, Waterloo marked an end to nearly 23 years of constant warfare that had devastated continental Europe since the Battle of Valmy in September 1792. After Waterloo, Europe enjoyed decades of relative peace, as the great powers did not fight another major war until the Crimean War (1853-1856). Still, the importance of the Battle of Waterloo is sometimes overstated; historians have argued that the odds against Napoleon were impossibly high, and had he not been defeated at Waterloo, he likely would have met his end on some other battlefield shortly thereafter
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so ive been out of the loop on smartphones for a while. anyone willing to recommend a couple for me to look at? my priorities are pretty much like this:
id prefer it to be powerful enough not to have any issues running any app or game i install on it for the foreseeable future, or a million tabs in a browser or whatever
decent battery life is pretty high priority
id prefer a decent amount of internal storage and also a microSD slot
if it didn’t have a camera at all i probably wouldn’t mind
other than that, im basically open to anything, across the budget spectrum. i guess realistically im looking for something around like $600 but i could go well above that if it’s actually worth it and im not paying them to cover the damn thing in like 7 cameras
I’ve read that the new Pixel is good and it should be around your price range.
no micro SD
Also my friends’ experience with pixels seems to be that they’re good phones/good value upfront but that by year three they’re pretty much ewaste.
The biggest advantage IMO is great community support for things like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, all other ROMs basically lol but I’m a weirdo
Good to know, I’ve been rocking a 1+ Eight for four years now and the first two years it was a pretty awful phone that had trouble charging but they did a software update 2 years back and it’s been a perfect phone ever since. Especially since I got it on sale for $300.
I don’t know shit about phones tbh but what I do know is that I’ve owned a few phones, and the two Huaweis I’ve had have consistently been the best. Great battery life, doesn’t slow down much, good storage and a microSD slot. The main problem is that the camera isn’t great, but if that’s not an issue then I would recommend a Huawei. Unless you live in the USA, where I’m pretty sure they’re banned
moto g line for battery life, microSD support. Maybe a higher end moto would be better for games, idk. Do some of your own research though because I guess the lineup can be spotty, one will be really good and then the following year’s version of the same model will be worse at the same price point randomly