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Belgian

Waterloo is in Belgium. Dutch and Belgian troops fought alongside the English. English propaganda downplayed the role of Dutch and Belgian troops in Napoleon's defeat (a fact probably known to Joyce, who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s).