Quatre-Bras and Waterloo revisited: A Belgian and Dutch history without glory

Authors
Publication date 2015
Journal The Low Countries
Volume | Issue number 23
Pages (from-to) 114-125
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM)
Abstract Anyone visiting the battlefield at Waterloo will hear and see nothing else but Napoleon and Wellington. The British got away with expropriating Waterloo for 200 years. In reality the battle of Waterloo was lost by Napoleon not on the 18th of June but on the 16th at Quatre-Bras where the Prince of Orange stopped the French advance towards Brussels.

Document type Article
Language English
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