IF YOU WANT TO VISIT THE 1815 BATTTLEFIELDS WITH THE AUTHOR OF THIS WEBSITE
Prelude : the Eagle's flight
Berthier's death at Bamberg, 1 June 1815
General campaign map (clickable map)
I collected all these places in a kmz-file
1815.kmz for GoogleEarth
and in a zip-file of POI's for the most common GPS systems GPS1815.zip.
Have a nice visit.
Beware, it's not completely finished yet.
(Quatre-Bras and Namur are still missing.)
If you click on a name, you'll be taken to that place.
MarCH - BEGINNING OF June 1815
6 May 1815 : Execution of Saxon soldiers by the Prussians
24/05/1815 : Graty, the first victim of the campaign ?
12 junE 1815 Laon
13 junE 1815 Avesnes
14 junE 1815 Hestrud - solre - beaumont
15 junE 1815 charleroi - gilly
In the meantime, on the allied side
15 JunE 1815
Brussels
The waterloo campaign : 16-20 June 1815 through the ACMN memorials
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the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815)
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
Ziethen's Corps' route on the 18th of June
New restoration action on the Waterloo battlefield (27/04/2013)
News from the Waterloo battlefield Latest news here !
Hondzocht, 18 June 1815, HQ of prince Frederic of Orange
Sorry if all this isn't translated yet, I'm still working on it.
19 June 1815 : Maubert-Fontaine
Nivelles : before ...and after the battle...
19 june - 29 august 1815 : blockade of Auxonne
25 June - 26
August :
Le siège de Huningue en 1815.
28 June :
Villers-Cotterêts
1st July :
Rocquencourt
The tombs of French Waterloo dead are rare, here a two of them (apart from Duhesme):
Armand-Louis Gobert, colonel of the 5e Cuirassiers, DOW.
Eugène d'ASTIER, DOW.
Boneffe reminds Blücher's passing by...
Reminders of the occupation (1814 or 1815)
A less known event
THE SIEGE OF Huningue In 1815.
Other websites :
- The Hougoumont project : http://www.projecthougoumont.com/index.html
- Waterloo 200 : http://www.waterloo200.org/
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.
- Winand Aerts, Waterloo, Opérations de l'Armée prussienne du Bas-Rhin pendant la campagne de Belgique en 1815, depuis la bataille de Ligny jusqu'à l'entrée en France des troupes prussiennes, Bruxelles, 1908.
- 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.
- Hamilton-Williams, David, Waterloo New Perspectives: The Great Battle
Reappraised, Caxton Editions, 2000.
- Haythornthwaite, Philip J., The Waterloo Armies: Men, Organization and
Tactics, Pen & Sword, 2007.
- 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.
- Hofschröer, Peter, Waterloo 1815: Quatre Bras and Ligny , Leo
Cooper, 2005.
- Hofschröer, Peter, Waterloo 1815: Wavre, Plancenoit and the Race to
Paris, Leo Cooper, 2006
- Howarth, David, Waterloo: A Near Run Thing, Phoenix, 2003.
- 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 (vers 1905).
- A very good website for the French losses in 1815. Far more complete than
the Martinien!
http://waterloo1815.olympe.in/main.php#
Les Carnets de la Campagne de 1815
http://belle-alliance.be/boutique/categorie-produit/les-carnets-de-la-campagne-de-1815/
01.Hougoumont
02.Le chemin d'Ohain
03.La Haie-Sainte
04.La Papelotte
05.Les Vertes Bornes
06. Plancenoit 1815
07.La Belle Alliance 1
08.La Belle Alliance 2
09. La Belle Alliance 3
10. Le Caillou
11. Genappe 1815
12. Charleroi 1815
13. Quatre-Bras (1)
- 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 .