Châteaux Frischermont or Fichermont in the Belgian municipality of
Lasne
Lasne (; wa, Lane) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, south east of Brussels.
In 2008, Lasne had a population of 14,043. The total area is 47.22 km² which gives a population density of 297 i ...
is now a ruin (destroyed by fire in and demolished in 1965).
[In some sources also Châteaux Frichermont] At the start of the
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium, Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium). A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armie ...
in 1815 it was garrisoned by Dutch soldiers on the easternmost flank of Wellington's defensive line.
In 1705 the Châteaux was for a time the headquarters of the
Duke of Marlborough
General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reign ...
. While at Frischermont Marlborough wrote that the escarpment of
Mont-Saint-Jean would be a good place to defend Brussels if it was attacked from the south.
At the start of the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815 it belonged to Monsieur Beaulieu, and it was garrisoned by troops of the 28th Regiment, Orange-Nassau (Regiment Oranje-Nassau No. 28) under the command of
Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar. It was here at 10:30 that as a French patrol drove back Dutch
pickets the first fighting of the day took place.
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List of Waterloo Battlefield locations
The Waterloo Battlefield is located in the municipalities of Braine-l'Alleud and Lasne and Waterloo, about south of Brussels, and about from the town of Waterloo. The ordering of the places in the list is north to south and west to east.
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Ruined castles in Belgium
Waterloo Battlefield locations
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