Waterloo and Napoleon
Friday, 5 October 2012 - 01:19 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General
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Battle of Waterloo- 18. June 1815 by Clément-Auguste Andrieux in 1852 © Musée national du Château de Versailles – Frank Schulenburg
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Waterloo is a Walloon municipality located in the
province of Walloon Brabant . On 30 September 2011, Waterloo had a total population of 29,706. The total area is 21.03 km² which gives a population density of 1,413 inhabitants per km². Nearly one fifth of the current registered population (5,640 inhabitants) are non-Belgian, many of whom work for institutions or companies in
Brussels , a political centre of the
European Union .
The Battle of Waterloo took place near Waterloo on 18 June 1815 between the First French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Alliance of the Seventh Coalition (the United Kingdom, Prussia, Austria and others), under the main allied commanders, the Duke of Wellington and General von Blücher .
Battle of Waterloo- 18. June 1815 by Clément-Auguste Andrieux in 1852 © Musée national du Château de Versailles - Frank Schulenburg
There is a memorial in the form of a statue of a lion (looking towards France) on a hill, with 226 stairs, called
La Butte du Lion . Other attractions related to the battle are the
Wellington Museum and the Roman Catholic
Church of St. Joseph , where Wellington is said to have prayed before going into battle and where British and Dutch plaques commemorating the fallen are now to be seen.
Today, Waterloo is home to the European headquarters of MasterCard International. There is a Carrefour hypermarket in Mont-Saint-Jean, a Delhaize store, an Ibis Hotel, several BNP Paribas Fortis branches, office parks to the east of the town and two international schools:
St. John’s International School and the “Scandinavian School”. As a result Waterloo is a polyglot and multicultural town, the Commune offers services in French, Dutch, and English. A row of shops, called
Petit Paris is situated on the
Chaussée de Bruxelles (which becomes
Chaussée de Waterloo or
Waterloosesteenweg when leaving Waterloo in the North and nearing Brussels).
Read more on
Commune of Waterloo ,
walloniabelgiumtourism.co.uk – Waterloo and
Wikipedia Waterloo . Learn more about the
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