Destroyed in 1815, the Hougoumont estate is now emerging from a 10-year restoration project — but how can the gardens combine ...

There are reports of local peasants being hired for cleanup at Waterloo, burying the dead of allies in mass graves and pits, and burning the French corpses. A visitor to Hougoumont reported seeing ...

The conflict at Waterloo happened in June 1815, in the province of Walloon Braban, Belgium. in 2022 an excavation at the site of a former field hospital at Mont-Saint-Jean farm discovered horses ...

Interpol officers were hunting for the 6ft-high 'irreplaceable' Hougoumont Christ which was taken at the historic site in Walloon Brabant, Belgium.

Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo—here’s what went wrong Napoleon made a bold return from exile in 1815 only to lose his last shot at empire in a crushing defeat delivered by the Duke of ...

The focus is on the Hougoumont Farm, explained Tony Pollard, director of the centre for battlefield archaeology at the University of Glasgow, who has been working closely with the Waterloo ...

In front of the great North Gate of Hougoumont Farm, descendants of three Waterloo commanders shook hands, and remembered the events which reshaped European history.

Hougoumont, where several accounts place a mass grave of Waterloo casualties, but where no grave has ever been found (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Why have no remains ever been found?

D'Hougoumont is named after a farmstead near Waterloo, Belgium, the site where Napoleon met his you know what, defeated by Britain's Duke of Wellington.

At the heart of the battle was the pivotal French assault on Hougoumont Farm, on whose wooden gate, in the Duke of Wellington’s words, the outcome of the entire world hinged. “Wellington was ...