Waterloo - Monuments
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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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