Alternate battle of Waterloo

Waterloo. Alternate outcome.

Following the August 11th 1814 treaty of Fontainebleau Napoleon abdicated the French throne and was exiled to Elba. The former French emperor did not stay on the tiny island forever though and on February 26th 1815 managed to escape and return to France.
Following his return to Paris Napoleon proclaimed himself as Emperor once more and hastily prepared and army of men to fight for his throne. He sent this army, under his personal command of course, to the Dutch occupied country of Belgium with the intent of defeating any force sent against him.
In OTL the following battle of Waterloo ended in a crushing defeat for Napoleon, and his final abdication of the French throne. Following the battle he was captured and sent off to the small island of Saint Helena.
But what if that was not the case? What if instead of suffering a massive defeat at Waterloo Napoleon manages to win the battle and smash the armies arrayed against him? Here is one possible scenario.

Ligny, 16th of June 1815.

In our time line this was the last battle which Napoleon won before Waterloo. And in this version of events it is the same. Napoleon manages to smash the Prussian army in the battle and send them packing to the British army.

The key difference in this time line however is the death of the Prussian general Blucher (He nearly died in our time line when his horse was shot and fell on him) during the height of the battle. With no leader the Prussian army collapses and retreats in disarray towards General Wellington and his ninety thousand Anglo-Dutch troops.

The defeat at Ligny makes Wellingtons position at Quatre Bras untenable and he chooses to move to a pre scouted position overlooking the town of Waterloo, the gateway to Brussels. Meanwhile Napoleon dispatches Field Marshal Ney to defeat what is left of the Prussian army, which he does in a brief but vicious battle. This means that unlike our time line Wellington does not receive a steady stream of fresh Prussian troops to replace lost or tired units.

On the 18th of June Napoleon engages wellington in a series of brutal forward attacks which significantly weaken the Anglo-Dutch armies center. Only the fall of night saves them from defeat and allows them to redeploy troops from the flanks to fill in the gaps.

The next morning sees Napoleon make the first of six charges into the re-enforced Anglo-Dutch line. Wellingtons army manages to survive five of the attacks an inflict heavy losses on the French. But on the sixth charge the French break through and overwhelm the exhausted English center. 

Wellington attempts to organize a counter attack to shore up his position and re-establish the center, but a cannon fires a ball which kills him.

With no leader the center of the army collapses quickly and is split into two separate parts with the French in the middle. Here Napoleon sends in what little reserves he has left to break the flanks of the Anglo-Dutch army. By the end of the day this is accomplished and Waterloo is in Napoleons hands.

In total over thirty thousand English and Dutch troops are killed. fifty thousand Prussians are killed, and the French loose over forty thousand men.

Aftermath.

Following the battle the leaders of Europe are stunned. Two of the finest Generals they had are dead. Most of the Prussian army in annihilated, and the French appear to be stronger than ever. Napoleon is once again Emperor of the French and holds southern Belgium. He appears to be on the cusp of waging another massive invasion of Europe and plunging the continent into another period of brutal warfare.

However that does not happen. Rather Napoleon sends ambassadors to Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia with a request of peace. This unexpected move on the emperors part (Napoleon was a warmonger at heart)  confuses the Allies so much that they pause and choose to listen to any peace deals Napoleon might offer.

Eventually the treaty of Amsterdam is signed which gives France all of the French speaking portions of Belgium and recognizes Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of France. Peace finally settles on Europe and everyone breaths a sigh of relief, even if confusion still reigns as to why Napoleon had offered peace in the first place.

What no one outside of France will know for quite some time though is that Napoleon is no longer the sole ruler of France. Following the victory at Waterloo a number of prominent army officials step forward and force Napoleon to give some of his power to a democratically elected Assembly which will elect a President to co-rule the empire. Napoleon does not like it, but with the only alternative being another exile he accepts and signs the French Constitution.

Meanwhile abroad the British decide to maintain a close eye on the French by supporting the Dutch and Prussians. Prussia remains a major power on the continent while the Dutch become a naval power once again. This is done in the hopes that if Napoleon should wish to declare war once more he would fight only the Prusso-Dutch and not the British, leaving them free to run the largest empire in world history.

France remains a European power, who`s only foreign ally is the United States, Many of the colonies claimed by France in the late nineteenth century are claimed by either the Dutch, or the British and a series of wars break out in the 1860`s and 80`s between the Anglo-Dutch, Prussian alliance and the Franco-Americans when the US splits into two nations following a rebellion over states rights (OTL Civil war only with less emphasis on slavery).