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Caption: Waterloo The battlefield
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Caption: Site of the Battle of Waterloo, where the resurgent Napoleon was defeated for the final time in 1815.
Waterloo lies a short distance south of Brussels, Belgium. The battle was won by an alliance of Brittish, Dutch and German armies.
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Caption: After the battle, a hill was made with on top, a lion, symbol of Flanders, facing France in a cruel way. Wellington Said that the hill spoil his battlefield. Therefore the brand new €50M museum is excavated underneath the fields, unvisible to see from above.
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Caption: Wellington did not like the name „Mont Saint Pierre“: too dificult. Therefore the site was called Waterloo, as like the name of a town 10km further up.
Now there are 40 cities in the world named Waterloo
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Caption: The day after the battle, about 10.000 soldiers and thousands of horses were found dead. At that time the biggest slaugther after Leipzig and Moscow.
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Caption: A bloke has been busy for 30 years to make tin soldiers and copy the battlefield. His dream was to have it exposed one day in a museum. It ended up underneath the battlefield itself., in th new museum.
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Caption: Wait for it
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Caption: „Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won“
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Caption: Highlight of the new museum is an epic 4D cinema featuring the battle as if you are inside yourselves. Breathtaking.
