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...

Hougoumont was a fortified farm held by Wellington's army in the Battle of Waterloo. Hougoumont, Hougomont, or variation may also refer to: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

penal colony in Western Australia. They were taken on the convict ship Hougoumont to Fremantle, Western Australia, arriving 9 January 1868. In 1869, pardons...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

on the ridge just behind Hougoumont. Their light companies, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel James Macdonnell, held Hougoumont Farm throughout the battle...

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;...

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...

Obelisk, commemorating the 683 Nassauers who died on 18 June 1815 near Hougoumont Farm in the respective battle against Napoleon. Apart from the palace...

campaign against Catholics and people of Irish origin. Later in 1868, the Hougoumont, the last convict ship to Australia, arrived in Western Australia carrying...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reenactors in the period uniforms firing muskets in the Battle of Waterloo reenactment, in front of the wood of Hougoumont, 2011...

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...

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...

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...

brought to colonial Western Australia (along with 60 other Fenians) on Hougoumont, the last convict ship sent to Australia. Flood and his shipmates passed...

300 short tons) of cement could be kept in a barge, formerly called the Hougoumont that was moored off South Queensferry. For a time a paddle steamer was...

command of the Duke of Wellington. Along with the walled farm compounds of Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte, it proved to be instrumental to the delay and the...

severely injured. He had taken part in the famous closing of the gates at Hougoumont and was said to have been so disturbed by the incident that he would never...