The Wellington Museum in

Waterloo, Belgium Waterloo (, ; wa, Waterlô) is a municipality in Wallonia, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which in 2011 had a population of 29,706 and an area of . Waterloo lies a short distance south of Brussels, and immediately north-east ...

, is located in the house where the

Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish soldier and Tories (British political party), Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of Uni ...

, spent the night before and after 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 ...

(18 June 1815). The museum contains information about the Duke of Wellington, the

Waterloo Campaign The Waterloo campaign (15 June – 8 July 1815) was fought between the French Army of the North and two Seventh Coalition armies, an Anglo-allied army and a Prussian army. Initially the French army was commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, but he l ...

, the main phases of the

a Gallery and contemporary military artefacts from the armies that fought in the battle. __NOTOC__

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File:Plate E from 'An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands' by William Mudford (1817).jpg, Headquarters of the Duke of Wellington, by C. C. Hamilton (1817) Belgium-6677 - Wellington's Bedroom (13967968430).jpg, Wellington's Bedroom, where he slept the night before the battle, and wrote his Waterloo dispatch to

Lord Bathurst Earl Bathurst, of Bathurst in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. The medieval English word was Botehurst, thought to date at least from the 13th century. Bote is the origination of Battle, although the family m ...

, British Secretary of War, early in the morning after the battle. Belgium-6675 - Death Bed (13967929447).jpg, The bed in which the mortally wounded Sir

Alexander Gordon Alexander Gordon may refer to: * Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly (died 1470), Scottish magnate * Alexander Gordon (bishop of Aberdeen) (died 1518), Precentor of Moray and Bishop-elect of Aberdeen * Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly (died ...

died in the evening after the battle. Belgium-6681 - Scots Greys (14131448666).jpg, ''

Scotland Forever! ''Scotland Forever!'' is an 1881 oil painting by Lady Butler depicting the start of the charge of the Royal Scots Greys, a British heavy cavalry regiment that charged with other British heavy cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The paint ...

'' by Lady Butler (the original is in

Leeds Art Gallery Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a gallery, part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group, whose collection of 20th-century British Art was designated by the British government in 1997 as a collection "of national importance ...

File:Belgium-6702 - French Room (14151876572).jpg, The French room Belgium-6686 - Displays (13968001290).jpg , Display room on the second floor Prussian medal Waterloo non-combattants.jpg, Prussian medal awarded to the non-combattants who took part at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Collection of the Wellington Museum, Waterloo.

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