18th June 1815 - the Battle of Waterloo

IF YOU WANT TO VISIT THE 1815 BATTTLEFIELDS WITH THE AUTHOR OF THIS WEBSITE

 
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

Latest news from the Waterloo battlefield

Unveiling of the restauration of the Brunswick and Hanoverian monuments (24/05/2015)

Ziethen's 1st Corps' route on the 18th of June

Bülow's 4th and Pirch I's 2nd Corps' routes on the 18th of June

Nivelles, after the battle...

Hondzocht, 18 June 1815, HQ of prince Frederic of Orange

 

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.

I can only recommend : "The Waterloo Campaign in 100 Locations", John Grehan with Dominique Timmermans, Frontline Books, Pen & Sword, 2023.

Easily available.

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  

 

 

 

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