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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That feeling when you realize that you're actually arguing with someone's trauma response, and there's no way any problems are getting resolved.
God save me from angry men with no emotional ability, no self awareness, and no perspective.
Bro literally stated the textbook definition of trauma induced hypervigilence, verbatim, and claimed that it was actually just them being more perceptive than everyone else in the world and yelled at me when I said "That is the textbook definitiuon of trauma induced hypervigilence, verbatim".
Ahhhhhh
CW: people being shits about depression.
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While we're at it; Fuck you for resenting me for being sick. I have compassion for the stress and hardship of caring for someone else, but seriously, fuck you. You want me to apologize for being severely mentally ill? For being very literally incapable of basic functions? You want to yell at me because you had to clear some dishes out of the sink and move a laundry basket? Eat my shit and hair, and fuck off. I am perfectly happy suffering alone without being disrespected and patronized like that. If you can't have at least a little fucking grace and compassion then go fix your own shit somewhere else.
I am sick to death of people treating me like I am not doing literally everything possible to mitigate this disease. Fuck all of them to hell. "You just have to force yourself" is just the most infuriatingly ignorant, cruel, thoughtless thing you can say to someone with a severe chronic illness. All I'm thinking when people say that is that if they had what I had they wouldn't have survived as long as I have.
And fuck people who say "everyone is depressed." Being emotionally down because of circumstances is not depression.
I can't relate to confusing my trauma hypervigilence with just being more perceptive at all 🙃 that could never be me nope.