The Battle of Waterloo was a battle in the War of Napoleonic Succession fought between August 30-September 1, 1845 near the village of Waterloo in present-day Wallonia. The battle pitted the pro-Napoleonic divisions of the Grand Armée under Giscard Scarainge and Theodosius von Kiel against the pro-Louisian forces under Ricard Murburrien, Pascal Giles and Otto Franken. While fought to a draw the first two days, on September 1 the Louisian forces broke through the right flank of von Kiel's IV Corps with heavy artillery fire and a cavalry charge authorized by Murburrien and led by Gerhardt Behrmann. Von Kiel surrendered his IV Corps that afternoon, ostensibly to cover Scarainge's retreat out of Wallonia.