18th June 1815 - the Battle of Waterloo
IF YOU WANT TO VISIT THE 1815 BATTTLEFIELDS WITH THE AUTHOR OF THIS WEBSITE
Beware : there is an error on this map, the position of the Allix and Donzelot
divisions have been inverted !
All the places of the 1815 campaign are included
in the kmz-file
1815.kmz for GoogleEarth and in a zip-file of
POI for the most common GPS
GPS1815.zip.
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 Battle of WATERLOO through the AFEW memorials
The 4 memorials to general DUHESME
Saving the Victor Hugo column - at last some hope for the Wounded Eagle
Theft of the Hougoumont Christ
Acts of vandalism on the Waterloo battlefield
Theft of the Hougoumont Christ
Acts of vandalism on the Waterloo battlefield
Latest news from the Waterloo battlefield
Ziethen's Corps' route on the 18th of June
Hondzocht, 18 June 1815, HQ of prince Frederic of Orange
Sorry if all this isn't translated yet, I'm working on it.
An interesting animation of the battle at this address : http://www.vayagif.com/203886/un-poco-de-historia-belica-asi-se-desarrollo-la-batalla-de-waterloo-en-1815
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.
- Hofschröer, Peter, 1815 The Waterloo Campaign Wellington, his German Allies and the battles of Ligny and Quatre-Bras, Greenhill Books, 1998.
- Hofschröer,Peter, 1815- The Waterloo Campaign - The German Victory, Greenhill Books, 1999.
- 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).
You can find here the famous Ferraris maps of the Belgian provinces drawn up between 1771 and 1778 : http://www.kbr.be/collections/cart_plan/ferraris/ferraris_fr.html Very useful to study the battlefield as it was (more or less) in 1815.
The chorographical map can be found here : http://uurl.kbr.be/1046903
