In 1815, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by a joint British, German and Dutch force under the command of the Duke of Wellington and General Gebhard von Bluecher.
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The site where HMS Grafton ran aground is only a few hundred feet from where the German warship Bluecher was sunk by a torpedo from the nearby Oscarsborg fort, the day Norway was occupied by the Nazis in 1940.