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The Wellington Museum in Waterloo, Belgium, is located in the house where the Duke of Wellington, spent the night before and after the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815). [1] The museum contains information about the Duke of Wellington, the Waterloo Campaign, the main phases of the Battle of Waterloo a Gallery and contemporary military artifacts ...
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 Duke of Wellington Describing the Field of Waterloo to George IV is an 1840 history painting by the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It depicts a scene in 1821 when George IV was escorted around the site of the Battle of Waterloo , six years after it was fought, by the victorious Allied commander the Duke of Wellington .
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 ...
One of the artificial legs designed by Potts and worn by the marquess is preserved at Plas Newydd in Anglesey, as is a leg of the hussar trousers worn by the 1st Marquess at Waterloo. [15] Others are in the Household Cavalry Museum and the Musée de l'Armée in Paris. The loss of his leg did not impede the Marquess of Anglesey's career.
The inn in which Wellington stayed was located opposite the Church of Saint Joseph and is now the Wellington Museum The farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, Waterloo — 50°41′9.1″N 4°24′35.71″E / 50.685861°N 4.4099194°E / 50.685861; 4.4099194 —is slightly to the south of the hamlet of the same name and is located on the plateau ...
Wellington and Waterloo: The Duke, The Battle and Posterity, 1815-2015, R E Foster, p. 136; Catalogue of Paintings in the Wellington Museum, Apsley House, English Heritage, p. 325-329; Sketch for Chelsea Pensioners receiving the announcement of the Battle of Waterloo, Yale Centre for British Art; News of Waterloo, National Archives
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