1815 - A little dust-up at Waterloo

In 1815 there was a to-do
In what's now Belgium, then the Netherlands
We're familiar with the name 'Waterloo'
Though younger folk associate it with trains
But the station's part of celebrations
Like Trafalgar Square is, of victories
In the Napoleonic Wars. Stations
With battlefield names abound in Paris
On the Metro, so it's not just the Brits
Who do this. The Romans built arches too
After twenty-five years of disturbance
Waterloo checked French imperial hubris
For long enough for others to come through
As worthy opponents - Germans, Russians...