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List of Waterloo Battlefield locations

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A map of the Battle of Waterloo with contours.

The Waterloo Battlefield is located in the municipalities of Braine-l'Alleud and Lasne and Waterloo,[1] about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Brussels, and about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the town of Waterloo. The ordering of the places in the list is north to south and west to east.

North of the line of battle

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Western end of the line of battle

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Centre of the line of battle

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Eastern end of the line of battle

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The following four locations provided the eastern bulwark of the Anglo-allied line:

South of the line of battle

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Monuments

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The monument to the French 8th Infantry Regiment is close to the KGL monument
  1. ^ Marcelis 2015.
  2. ^ LLG staff 1820, p. 68.
  3. ^ Bellaigue 1978.
  4. ^ RC staff 2015.
  5. ^ Siborne 1848, p. 581.
  6. ^ Andrew Uffindell; Michael Corum (1 November 2002), On The Fields Of Glory: The Battlefields of the 1815 Campaign, Frontline Books, p. 153, ISBN 978-1-85367-514-0
  7. ^ Longford 1971, p. 547.

References

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