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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.
This is an incomplete list of castles and châteaux in Belgium. [a] The Dutch word kasteel and the French word château refer both to fortified defensive buildings (castles proper) and to stately aristocratic homes (châteaux, manor houses or country houses).
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 ...
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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Mont-Saint-Jean is on the reverse slope of the escarpment where the Battle of Waterloo was fought, and is the name Napoleon Bonaparte gave to the battle (la bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean). [1] At the time of the battle there was a farm called Mont-Saint-Jean Farm , on the Charleroi–Brussels road about halfway between the edge of the escarpment ...