Châteaux Frischermont or Fichermont in the Belgian municipality of
Lasne is now a ruin (destroyed by fire in and demolished in 1965).
[In some sources also Châteaux Frichermont] At the start of the
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium, Waterloo (then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The French Imperial Army (1804–1815), Frenc ...
in 1815 it was garrisoned by Dutch soldiers on the easternmost flank of Wellington's defensive line.
In 1705 the Châteaux was for a time the headquarters of the
Duke of Marlborough. While at Frischermont Marlborough wrote that the escarpment of
Mont-Saint-Jean would be a good place to defend Brussels if it was attacked from the south.
At the start of the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815 it belonged to Monsieur Beaulieu, and it was garrisoned by troops of the 28th Regiment, Orange-Nassau (Regiment Oranje-Nassau No. 28) under the command of
Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar. It was here at 10:30 that as a French patrol drove back Dutch
pickets the first fighting of the day took place.
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List of Waterloo Battlefield locations
The Waterloo Battlefield is located in the municipalities of Braine-l'Alleud and Lasne and Waterloo, Belgium, Waterloo, about south of Brussels, and about from the town of Waterloo, Belgium, Waterloo. The ordering of the places in the list is ...
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Ruined castles in Belgium
Waterloo Battlefield locations
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