mention of Hougoumont is found on the 1777 map of the Austrian Netherlands created by Comte Joseph de Ferraris, marked as "Chateau Hougoumont". This is...
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Hougoumont is a fortified farm that was held by Wellington's army in the Battle of Waterloo. Hougoumont, Hougomont, or variation may also refer to: Hougoumont...
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Hougoumont was the last convict ship to transport convicts to Australia. A three-masted full-rigged ship of the type commonly known as a Blackwall Frigate...
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Battle of Waterloo (section Hougoumont)
entrenched Hougoumont position. Any attack on his right centre would mean the attackers would have to march between enfilading fire from Hougoumont and La...
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Bonaparte's division at the Battle of Waterloo, where he would die at Hougoumont. Bauduin joined the French Army on September 11 of 1792, originally as...
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Coldstream Guards, he was commended for his gallantry during the defence of Hougoumont, at Waterloo. Graham saved the life of an officer, and his own brother...
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2015, the Lion's Mound, the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo and the Hougoumont farm. The Memorial, the Lion's Mound and the Panorama of the Battle of...
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Arrazola de Oñate (section Castle Hougoumont)
between two sable wolves, symbolising both strength and slyness. The Castle Hougoumont located in Braine-l'Alleud was property of this Spanish family from mid-17th...
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Netherlands, now in Belgium). It commenced with a diversionary attack on Hougoumont by a division of French soldiers. After a barrage of 80 cannons, the first...
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indirect fire adjusted by an observer seems to be during the defence of Hougoumont in the Battle of Waterloo where a battery of the Royal Horse Artillery...
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penal colony in Western Australia. They were taken on the convict ship Hougoumont to Fremantle, Western Australia, arriving 9 January 1868. In 1869, pardons...
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Cassell 2000; ISBN 978-0-304-35456-6: discussed during the account of the Hougoumont action. Knox, MacGregor; Murray, Williamson (2001). The Dynamics of Military...
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Wilson and sixty one other Fenians began the long sea voyage on board the Hougoumont. Life in Fremantle was hard. Wilson had been sentenced to penal servitude...
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Reille. At Waterloo, Jérôme's division was to make an initial attack on Hougoumont. It is said that Napoleon wished to draw in the Duke of Wellington's reserves...
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Obelisk, commemorating the 683 Nassauers who died on 18 June 1815 near Hougoumont Farm in the respective battle against Napoleon. Apart from the palace...
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campaign against Catholics and people of Irish origin. Later in 1868, the Hougoumont, the last convict ship to Australia, arrived in Western Australia carrying...
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Mont-Saint-Jean was the name given to the battle by Napoleon. Châteaux Hougoumont—50°40′14.27″N 4°23′41.28″E / 50.6706306°N 4.3948000°E / 50.6706306;...
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sketches. In the background is the ruined remains of the farmhouse at Hougoumont which had played a pivotal role in the fighting. It was exhibited at the...
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In accordance with this, the last convict ship to Western Australia, Hougoumont, left Britain in 1867 and arrived in Western Australia on 10 January 1868...
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the Allied forces did with the hamlet of Papelotte and the farmhouse of Hougoumont on the left and right flanks at the Battle of Waterloo. When the terrain...
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Expedition. Later, it served as part of the 2nd Guards Brigade in the Chateau Hougoumont where they resisted French assaults all day during the Battle of Waterloo...
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Baring's pioneers had been sent to aid the fortification of the nearby Hougoumont farmhouse. This meant that the strengthening of the farm’s defences would...
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on the ridge just behind Hougoumont. Their light companies, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell, held Hougoumont Farm throughout the battle...
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Peninsular War. He is best known for his command of the infantry defending the Hougoumont farmhouse at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, where he fought with great...
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Blackman spent the day of the Battle of Waterloo defending the Château of Hougoumont against the French. As the last of the enemy fled the field, a musket...
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Wellington's army, on the left flank. As the fights around La Haye Sainte and Hougoumont developed, Wellington's cavalry commander, the Earl of Uxbridge, held...
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including O'Donovan, Cornelius O'Mahony and Joseph Nunan he set sail on board Hougoumont. This ship was to be the last to transport convicts to Australia. The...
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brought to colonial Western Australia (along with 60 other Fenians) on Hougoumont, the last convict ship sent to Australia. Flood and his shipmates passed...
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close to La Haye Sainte. During the event, the Allied Army was camped at Hougoumont, with the French camped about a mile away from La Caillou. The event was...
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Goumont or variation may refer to: Hougoumont, formerly named "Goumont" (also 'Gomont'), a fortified farming estate involved in the Battle of Waterloo...
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