Wellington Museum, Waterloo

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The Wellington Museum (2015)

The Wellington Museum in Waterloo, Belgium is located in the house where the Duke of Wellington, spent the night before and after the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815).[1]

The museum contains information about the Duke of Wellington, the Waterloo Campaign, the main phases of the Battle of Waterloo a Gallery and contemporary military artefacts from the armies that fought in the battle.[2]

  • Headquarters of the Duke of Wellington, by C. C. Hamilton (1817)

  • Wellington's Bedroom, where he slept the night before the battle, and wrote his Waterloo dispatch to Lord Bathurst, British Secretary of War, early in the morning after the battle.

  • The bed in which the mortally wounded Sir Alexander Gordon died in the evening after the battle.

  • Scotland Forever! by Lady Butler (the original is in Leeds Art Gallery

  • The French room

  • Display room on the second floor

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ The Museum.
  2. ^ Museum Information 2014.

References[]

  • "The Museum". Musee. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  • "Museum Information". Musee. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2017.

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Coordinates: 50°43′03.6″N 04°23′53.5″E / 50.717667°N 4.398194°E / 50.717667; 4.398194

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