Lion’s Mound - Waterloo, Belgium
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ToRo61
N 50° 40.705 E 004° 24.293
31U E 599258 N 5615006
The Scenic Overlook of Waterloo battlefied.
Waymark Code: WMP6XQ
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date Posted: 07/11/2015
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815.
A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, combined with a Prussian army under the command of Prince Blücher. Two large forces under Wellington and Blücher assembled close to the north-eastern border of France. Napoleon chose to attack in the hope of destroying them before they could join in a coordinated invasion of France with other members of the coalition. Waterloo was the decisive engagement of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last. The defeat at Waterloo ended Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French, and marked the end of his Hundred Days return from exile.
In 1820, the Netherlands' King William I ordered the construction of a monument. The Lion Mound (
visit link) , a giant mound, was constructed here using 300,000 cubic metres. Apart from the Lion Mound, there are several other monuments throughout the battlefield.
On the top of Lion’s Mound is great the scenic overlook over big part of former battlefield.