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Waterloo Village takes the visitor through time from a 400-year old Lenape (Delaware) Indian village to a bustling port along the once prosperous Morris Canal. This early 19th-century restored village contains a working mill complex with gristmills and sawmills, a general store, blacksmith shop and several historic houses.
Waterloo Bridge looking towards The Strand with Somerset House on the right, oh and a good looking man striding south.
London Waterloo on a gorgeous June evening, with two Class 455s and a Class 444 sitting under the London Eye.
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in Belgium. A French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington and a Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal von Blücher. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Étonnant brabant, un parcours très vert. Temps plutôt frais que chaud… sous un ciel très nuageux. ,Quelques 550 photos en 6:30h de marche durant ces 20 km.
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Située à vingt kilomètres environ au sud de Bruxelles, cette commune à caractère résidentiel et commercial, bien que densément peuplée depuis la fin des années 1980, reste très verdoyante grâce à ses nombreux espaces verts dont quelques dizaines d'hectares de la forêt de Soignes (domaine d'Argenteuil), le poumon vert de la région bruxelloise.
Au centre de la localité, le quartier général du duc de Wellington qui fait face à l'église Saint-Joseph et à sa chapelle royale, abrite aujourd'hui le Musée Wellington8 qui retrace l'histoire de sa fameuse bataille du 18 juin 1815 qui a opposé Napoléon Ier à une coalition européenne conduite par l'Angleterre. Face au Musée Wellington, on peut également visiter un Musée d'histoire locale, situé à l'étage des bureaux de Waterloo Tourisme9.
>>> Wikipedia: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo
>>> Tourisme: www.waterloo-tourisme.com/
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Commentaires photos: Canon EOS R avec télé-objectif 24/105 mm. Fort lourd avec son « grip » et 580 photos avec les 2 batteries du « grip »
Waterloo Village takes the visitor through time from a 400-year old Lenape (Delaware) Indian village to a bustling port along the once prosperous Morris Canal. This early 19th-century restored village contains a working mill complex with gristmills and sawmills, a general store, blacksmith shop and several historic houses.
Waterloo Underground station is a London Underground station located at Waterloo station in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is the busiest station on the network and is served by the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern and the Waterloo & City lines.
The first underground station at Waterloo was opened on 8 August 1898.
88.1 KDHX celebrated it's 25th birthday on October 14, 2012, 25 years to the day that the station began broadcasting. The event took place at Schlafly Bottleworks and featured an array of special performances, including supergroups and reunited bands, KDHX DJs spinning records, a photo booth and a proclamation from Mayor Francis Slay declaring the date KDHX Day in the city of St. Louis.
Photo by Kate McDaniel.
Sir William Ponsonby who gave his life in the Coalition Wars (1792-1815). He was killed in action in the Battle of Waterloo.
His monument paid for by Parliament and designed by William
Theed and Edward Hodges Baily is in St Paul's Cathedral, but he was buried in St Mary Anbbots in July 1815 www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/11737
From the Waterloo Roll "MAJOR-GENERAL.
The Hon. Sir William Ponsonby, K.C.B., K.
Lost his life at Waterloo from being badly mounted. Whilst leading a cavalry charge against the “Polish Lancers” his horse stuck in a heavy ploughed field and was unable to extricate itself. “He took a picture and watch out of his pocket and was just delivering them to his A.D.C. to give his wife when the lancers were on him.” Both Ponsonby and his companion were immediately killed by the Polish cavalry, who, later in the day, were almost annihilated by the Heavy Brigade which Ponsonby had commanded. He was 2nd son of Wm., 1st Baron Ponsonby, of Imokilly, co. Cork, by Hon. Louisa Molesworth, 4th dau. of F.-M. Viscount Molesworth. M. 20th Jan., 1807, Hon. Georgiana Fitzroy, dau. of Charles, 1st Baron Southampton, and had a son, born posthumous, 6th Feb., 1816, who succeeded as 3rd Baron Ponsonby."
Major-General the Honourable Sir William Ponsonby, KCB
Irish politician and British Army officer who served in the Peninsula War and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.
Second son of William Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Baron (15 September 1744 – 5 November 1806), by the Hon. Louisa (1749–1824), fourth daughter of the 3rd Viscount Molesworth.
He married the Hon. Georgiana FitzRoy, youngest daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton.
Having initially served with the 83rd Regiment, on 1 March 1798 Ponsonby joined the 5th Dragoon Guards, becoming lieutenant-colonel in 1800. He obtained command of the regiment in February 1803 and advanced to colonel in July 1810. Ponsonby commanded the 5th Dragoon Guards during the Peninsular War (1808-1814) and succeeded to the command of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade after the Battle of Salamanca (1812). He led the brigade at Burgos (1812) and Vittoria (1813) and during the offensive across the Pyrenees. At Waterloo (1815) he commanded the Union Cavalry Brigade, but rode too far after their charge against Marshal Drouet D'Erlon's I Corps. Ponsoby's horse became mired in mud near the enemy lines and he was killed by Polish lancers during a French counter-attack.
He was buried on 10th July 1815 in the Molesworth family vault in St Mary Abbot Church, Kensington.
A national monument (pictured) was erected to him in St Paul's Cathedral, at the west end of the crypt.
A memorial plaque was erected on the 200th anniversary in Mary Abbotts in Kensington High Street, where General Ponsonby was buried. The church standing there today is a new one built in the 1860's and so the place of Sir William's gave is no longer known.
Inscription
"REMEMBER BEFORE GOD
MAJOR GENERAL THE HONOURABLE
SIR WILLIAM PONSONBY KCB
1772 – 1815
WHO WAS KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
LEADING THE CHARGE OF THE UNION BRIGADE
AND IS BURIED IN THIS CHURCH
THE PONSONBY FAMILY ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL
ON THE SECOND CENTENARY OF HIS DEATH"
A national monument was erected to him in St Paul's Cathedral, at the west end of the crypt.