Wellington Museum, Waterloo
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The Wellington Museum in 2015 | |
Established | 1954 |
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Location | Waterloo, Belgium |
Type | War museum |
Website | museewellington |
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 artifacts from the armies that fought in the battle.[citation needed]
Gallery
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Headquarters of the Duke of Wellington, by C. C. Hamilton (1817)
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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.
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The bed in which the mortally wounded Sir Alexander Gordon died in the evening after the battle.
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Scotland Forever! by Lady Butler (the original is in Leeds Art Gallery
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The French room
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Display room on the second floor
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Prussian medal awarded to the non-combattants who took part at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Collection of the Wellington Museum, Waterloo.
See also
References
- ^ "History of the building". Musée Wellington. 2020-07-10. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
External links
Media related to Wellington Museum, Waterloo at Wikimedia Commons
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