Two hundred years on, guns roar anew at Waterloo

WATERLOO: The sounds of war rang out on the fields of Belgium on Thursday as the Battle of Waterloo was restaged 200 years after the clash that ended Napoleon's imperial ambitions and changed the course of European history.

In what was billed as the biggest re-enactment of its kind, 6,000 history enthusiasts from 52 countries in full costume acted out the July 18, 1815 clash between the French army and the allied British, Prussian and Dutch forces.