On this day, a battle to decide the fate of an empire was being fought in Waterloo, a little-known town in Belgium.,Now that he is only four years old, he can barely understand the meaning of words like "empire" and "emperor." Of course, he couldn't possibly know that today his father has gambled away the entire empire, and in doing so, robbed him of all the glory that once surrounded him.,As an amateur European history enthusiast, he naturally knew what all these details represented and understood his current status.。