Waterloo - Monuments
On the extensive area of the former battlefield there are commemorative monuments of the bloody fighting including three around the crossing of the main road with the road to the Lion Hill.
These are: a monument erected in 1914 for the fallen of Belgium in the form of a stone column with bronze standards bearing an inscription in French "To those Belgians who fell on June 18, 1815 in the battle for the defense of their standard and the honor of the armies"; a monument surrounded by a railing for the men of Hanover with the inscription "In memory of their brothers in arms who fell on June 18, 1815" and the monument for Lt. Col.
These are: a monument erected in 1914 for the fallen of Belgium in the form of a stone column with bronze standards bearing an inscription in French "To those Belgians who fell on June 18, 1815 in the battle for the defense of their standard and the honor of the armies"; a monument surrounded by a railing for the men of Hanover with the inscription "In memory of their brothers in arms who fell on June 18, 1815" and the monument for Lt. Col.
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Gordon, Wellington's adjutant, who was killed here. Both the last named monuments stand on the level of the former battlefield, the surrounding area was removed for the erection of the Lion Hill. A path to the Lion Hill which passes the monuments corresponds to the course of the sunken road of Ohain. Other interesting monuments can be found further to the south: in Plancenoit is one to the fallen Prussians, a work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel dating from 1819; still further south on the right of the main road the fallen French imperial eagle at the spot where the guard made its last stand and where the saying "the guard dies but does not yield" is reputed to have arisen.
