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A map of the Battle of Waterloo with contours. The Waterloo Battlefield is located in the municipalities of Braine-l'Alleud and Lasne and Waterloo, [1] about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Brussels, and about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the town of Waterloo. The ordering of the places in the list is north to south and west to east.
An 1816 map of the local topography and the location of the battle. The Waterloo position chosen by Wellington was a strong one. It consisted of a long ridge running east–west, perpendicular to, and bisected by, the main road to Brussels. Along the crest of the ridge ran the Ohain road, a deep sunken lane.
The Waterloo 1815 Memorial (French: Mémorial Waterloo 1815) is a Belgian museum complex located on the site of the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium. It includes a museum inaugurated in 2015, the Lion's Mound , the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo and the Hougoumont farm .
The site served as one of the advanced defensible positions of the Anglo-allied army under the Duke of Wellington, that faced Napoleon's Army at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Hougoumont, which had become dilapidated, was fully restored in time for the 200th anniversary of the battle and opened to the public on 18 June 2015.
The erection of the Lion's Mound, 1825. Engraving by Jobard, after a Bertrand drawing. [a]The Lion's Mound was designed by the royal architect Charles Vander Straeten, at the behest of King William I of the Netherlands, who wished to commemorate the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of his elder son, King William II of the Netherlands (then Prince of ...
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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.
For example, Sir Walter Scott writing a few months after the battle places the house "at the distance of a gun-shot from La Belle Alliance", [3] and a map in (to the right) places the house about half a kilometre south of La Belle Alliance and it places Rossomme at 1.5 km from La Belle Alliance—Siborne's 1844 map which is a much or accurate ...