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The A16 motorway on the Echinghen viaduct near Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais). The A16 autoroute – also known as L'Européenne and forming between Abbeville and Dunkirk a part of the larger Autoroute des estuaires – is a motorway in northern France.
Waterloo lies a short distance south of Brussels, and immediately north-east of the larger town of Braine-l'Alleud. It is the site of the Battle of Waterloo, where the resurgent Napoleon was defeated for the final time in 1815. Waterloo lies immediately south of the official language border between Flanders and Wallonia.
Waterloo railway station (French: Gare de Waterloo; Dutch: Station Waterloo) [a] is a railway station in Waterloo, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. The station opened on 1 February 1874 and is located on railway line 124. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB/NMBS). [1]
La Haye Sainte (French pronunciation: [la ɛ sɛ̃t], lit. ' The Holy Hedge ' , named either after Jesus ' crown of thorns or a nearby bramble hedge [ 1 ] ) is a walled farmhouse compound at the foot of an escarpment near Waterloo , Belgium, on the N5 road connecting Brussels and Charleroi .
Waterloo most commonly refers to: Battle of Waterloo, 1815 battle where Napoleon's French army was defeated by Anglo-allied and Prussian forces; Waterloo, Belgium;
The Chaussée de Waterloo appeared in 1662. Originally, it was simply an extension of the old Chaussée de Vleurgat / Vleurgatse Steenweg from the place called La Bascule to Waterloo. The road, which was also called the Chaussée de Wallonie / Waalse Steenweg was again extended at the end of the 17th century to Charleroi and Namur.
The memorial gives access to the Lion's Mound (a 40-metre high monument erected in 1826 at the request of William I, King of the Netherlands, to mark the presumed spot where his eldest son, the Prince of Orange, was wounded on 18 June 1815), the rotunda of the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo (built in 1911 by the architect Franz Van Ophem [2 ...
This station, which quickly took the name "South Station" (French: Gare du Midi, Dutch: Zuidstation), served as the six-track terminus of the South Line, a southbound railway line linking Brussels to the industrial towns of Mons, Charleroi and La Louvière, at the heart of the Sillon industriel in Hainaut, Belgium, before crossing the French ...