Wellington Museum, Waterloo
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
[edit]- Headquarters of the Duke of Wellington, by C. C. Hamilton (1817)
- 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.
- The bed in which the mortally wounded Sir Alexander Gordon died in the evening after the battle.
- Scotland Forever! by Lady Butler (the original is in Leeds Art Gallery
- The French room
- Display room on the second floor
- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "History of the building". Musée Wellington. 2020-07-10. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Wellington Museum, Waterloo at Wikimedia Commons