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Napoleon returns and angrily rebukes his marshals for allowing Ney to attack without infantry support.

The attacks are repulsed and the French have no fresh troops left, yet Napoleon can see that the cavalry attacks have weakened the Allied line.

He determines that the farmhouse of La Haye Sainte is the key to the battlefield and orders its capture.

After fierce fighting, a French flag flies above it and Napoleon asks Soult to write a letter to Paris that the battle and the war have been won.