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  2. Waterloo 1815 Memorial - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. List of Waterloo Battlefield locations - Wikipedia

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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 20 kilometres (12 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.

  4. Hougoumont - Wikipedia

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    The historian Andrew Roberts notes that "It is a curious fact about the battle of Waterloo that no one is absolutely certain when it actually began". [ 13 ] The initial attack by Maréchal de Camp Pierre François Bauduin 's 1st Brigade of the 6th Division emptied the wood and park, but was driven back by heavy British artillery fire and cost ...

  5. Battle of Waterloo - Wikipedia

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    As part of the bicentennial celebration of the battle, in 2015 Belgium minted a two-euro coin depicting the Lion monument over a map of the field of battle. France officially protested against this issue of coins, while the Belgian government noted that the French mint sells souvenir medals at Waterloo. [ 267 ]

  6. Lion's Mound - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Archaeological dig at site of Battle of Waterloo to find ...

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    Veteran support charity Waterloo Uncovered will carry out a targeted excavation in September after a ‘rare’ discovery in 2022. Archaeological dig at site of Battle of Waterloo to find remains ...

  8. Waterloo, Belgium - Wikipedia

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    Waterloo (French pronunciation: ⓘ; [2] Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ⓘ; Walloon: Waterlô) is a municipality in Wallonia, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which in 2011 had a population of 29,706 and an area of 21.03 km 2 (8.12 sq mi). Waterloo lies a short distance south of Brussels, and immediately north-east ...

  9. Category:Waterloo Battlefield locations - Wikipedia

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