History always fascinate every one. Its seems amazing even thinking that how any place or person looks like hundreds, thousands or millions years ago. So its more amazing to see old historical pictures. We can see our past through such available old historical pictures.
Friday, February 12, 2016
The erection of the Lion's mound, 1825. Engraving by Jobard, after Bertrand drawing.
The erection of the Lion's mound, 1825. Engraving by Jobard, after Bertrand drawing.
The Lion's Mound (French: Butte du Lion, lit. "Lion's Hillock/Knoll"; Dutch: Leeuw van Waterloo, lit. "Lion of Waterloo") is a large conical artificial hill located in the municipality ofBraine-l'Alleud (Dutch: Eigenbrakel), Belgium. King William I of the Netherlands ordered its construction in 1820, and it was completed in 1826. It commemorates the location on thebattlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of William II of the Netherlands (thePrince of Orange) and knocked him from his horse during the battle.[1] It is also a memorial of the Battle of Quatre Bras, which had been fought two days earlier, on 16 June 1815.
The hill offers a vista of the battlefield, and is the anchor point of the associated museums and taverns in the surrounding Lion's Hamlet (French: le Hameau du Lion; Dutch: Gehucht met de Leeuw).[2] Visitors who pay a fee may climb up the Mound's 226 steps, which lead to the statue and its surrounding overlook (where there are maps documenting the battle, along with observation telescopes); the same fee also pays for admission to see the painting Waterloo Panorama.
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