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History Matters: Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo
William Sadler (1782–1839)
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The Battle of Waterloo
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport
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LSU Shreveport
Dr. Gary Joiner

Airs Tuesday, September 17, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Dr. Gary Joiner takes a look the battle of Waterloo and the lasting legacy of Napoleon's reign and fall of the Western World.

Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”