The Battle of Waterloo is usually pictured as an English triumph, but most of the soldiers under the Duke of Wellington's command were not English at all. This film draws on unpublished letters and diaries to retell the 1815 campaign through the eyes of the Dutch, Belgian, German, and Scottish troops who made up the bulk of the allied army. Historians and battlefield guides walk the ground at Waterloo, pointing out where these units held the line against Napoleon's veterans, while reenactment footage and period illustrations fill in the fighting itself. The narrative follows the day from the farmhouses of Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte through to the final French retreat, using individual soldiers' own words to describe the noise, confusion, and losses of close-range combat. The result corrects the redcoat-only myth without dismissing the British role, giving equal weight to the allied contingents whose numbers and discipline were decisive in holding off Napoleon until the Prussians arrived.