18th June 1815 - the Battle of Waterloo


Beware : there is an error on this map, the position of the Allix and Donzelot divisions have been inverted !

The British memorials of the 18th of June

The memorials inside the Royal Chapel and St-Joseph church at Waterloo

The British memorial at the Brussels cemetery

The British tombs

Hougoumont

The Battle of WATERLOO through the AFEW memorials

Mont-Saint-Jean farm

Haie-Sainte farm

The Prussian memorials

The Belgian memorials

The Dutch memorials

The 4 memorials to general DUHESME

Saving the Victor Hugo column - at last some hope for the Wounded Eagle

All memorials at Plancenoit

Theft of the Hougoumont Christ

Acts of vandalism on the Waterloo battlefield

Theft of the Hougoumont Christ

Acts of vandalism on the Waterloo battlefield

News from the Waterloo battlefield (April 2012)

Nivelles, after the battle...

Sorry if all this isn't transalated yet, I'm working on it.


Beware : there is an error on this map, the position of the Allix and Donzelot divisions have been inverted !

The tombs of the Waterloo dead are rare, here a two of them:

Armand-Louis Gobert, colonel of the 5e Cuirassiers, DOW.

Eugène d'ASTIER, DOW.

Boneffe reminds Blücher's passing by...

 

 

Bibliography :

 

- An, The Waterloo Medal Roll, compiled from the Muster Rolls, The Naval and Military Press, 1992.

- Mark Adkin, The Waterloo Companion, Aurum Press, 2001.

- Alain Arcq, Les Quatre-Bras, le second prélude à Waterloo, in the collection "Les batailles oubliées", Historic'One Editions, 2005.

- Alain Arcq, Ligny, 16 juin 1815, La dernière victoire de l'Empereur, in the collection "Les batailles oubliées", Historic'One Editions, 2006.

- Alain Arcq, Wavre & le combat de Namur L'épilogue de la campagne de Belgique, in the collection "Les batailles oubliées", Historic'One Editions, 2008.

- Barral, Georges, Itinéraire illustré de l'épopée de Waterloo, guide historique et militaire du champ de bataille, avec les diagrammes de l'auteur et 60 dessins originaux d'Adolphe Hamesse. Flammarion, Paris, 1896.
- Alain CHAPPET - Roger MARTIN - Alain PIGEARD, Le Guide Napoléon - 4000 lieux pour revivre l'épopée, Bibliothèque Napoléonienne, Tallandier, 2005.

- Dalton, Charles, The Waterloo Roll Call, with biographical notes and anecdotes, Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1904.
- Yann Deniau et Yves Moerman, 1815 - Napoléon en Campagne, Jourdan éditeur, 2008.

- Peter Hofschröer, Waterloo 1815 - Quatre-Bras & Ligny, Pen & Sword, 2006.  

- Peter Hofschröer, Waterloo 1815 - Wavre, Plancenoit & the race to Paris, Pen & Sword, 2006.    

- André Sevrin and Alain Arcq, Route Napoléon 1815 (ouvrage collectif coordonné par), Edition Unité de projet "Route Napoléon 1815", s.d..

-  G. Speeckaert and I. Baecker, Les 135 vestiges et monuments commémoratifs des combats de 1815 en Belgique, Waterloo, relais de l'histoire, 1990. Exists also in English.
 - Mr. Claude Van Hoorebeeck's website : http://www.freepub.be/waterloo.php

- Van Neck, Léon, Waterloo met afbeeldingen, Lebègue, Brussel, s.d (around 1905).

 

 

 

 

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