File:18 June 1815 – Victory at Waterloo – Braine-l'Alleud.jpg

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The parish church of Braine l'Alleud as field hospital

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English: Plaque affixed at the entrance of the parish church of Braine-l'Alleud.

(FR) Cette église servit d'hopital au lendemain de la bataille du 18 juin 1815. Charitablement les Brainois vinrent en aide aux blessés.

(EN) This church served as a hospital the day after the battle of June 18, 1815. Charitably, the people of Braine-l'Alleud came to the aid of the wounded.

(DE) Diese Kirche diente am Tag nach der Schlacht vom 18. Juni 1815 als Krankenhaus. Wohltätig kam das Volk von Braine-l'Alleud den Verwundeten zu Hilfe.

Excerpt of Cotton, Edward, A Voice from Waterloo (...), 5th edit., 1854, Chapter IX, 137.

The field of battle, after the victory, presented a frightful and most distressing spectacle. (...) Solicitude for the wounded prompted the Duke to ride back to Brussels immediately after the sanguinary contest. The assistance of the town authorities was requested, in collecting and removing the wounded from the field, burying the dead, etc., as well as to restore confidence amongst the population, and allay the extreme excitement which prevailed throughout Belgium. Right nobly did the inhabitants of Brussels repond to his appeal. The clergy, as might have been expected, were foremost in their exertions to relieve the dreadful agonies of so many gallant and innocent sufferers : the highest in rank rivalled the hardier classes in performing the most trying offices for the mangled heroes that filled the hospitals, and encumbered even many private dwellings. (...)
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Camera location50° 40′ 56.75″ N, 4° 22′ 13.26″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Address : Eglise Saint-Etienne, Place Abbé Renard, BE - 1420 Braine-l'Alleud.
Bibliography : Laudy, L., Les Lendemains de Waterloo, d'après les récits de témoins oculaires et de nombreux documents inédits, 1921, 27.

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