Return
Mar-Jun 1815 in Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium: Elba to Belgium. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Ridge, two farms, Plancenoit, Wavre inset -- four labels.
The lion is a fifth, later, label.
Maps
Two battles
16 June in Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium: Ligny and Quatre Bras. A memory map, not a present overlay.
The ridge
18 June day in Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium: Hougoumont to the Guard. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Rout
18 June evening in Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium: La Belle Alliance; pursuit. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Memory
After in Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium: Lion, films, re-enactors. A memory map, not a present overlay.
Portrayals
Napoleon biographies
The usual English doorway into Battle of Waterloo: Lost his last set-piece and his throne. The mud-and-Grouchy explanations began in his own circle.
Wellington biographies
The paired doorway: Held the ridge and later the British political right. "Nearest-run thing" is his caption.
School survey chapters
Where Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) is a paragraph or a unit in US/UK/AU/CA -- often thinner than Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium local hours.
Local museums / sites in Ridge south of Brussels
Thicker than the English paragraph. Memory is the usual late pilgrimage caption.
Feature film / television
If Battle of Waterloo has a visual canon, it probably outruns the monographs. Treat film as memory, not as a log.
Korean comparative essays
A Korean reader may pair Battle of Waterloo with 1950-53, Inchon, Tsushima, or the ROK force-structure story even when the campaign was elsewhere.
Rituals
1815-03 / 1815-10 dates
The usual ritual poles of Battle of Waterloo: Elba escape and St Helena.
Museum and cemetery wreaths
Official and family rites at sites in Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium. Henry Paget, Lord Uxbridge is often the civilian or corrective name on the plaque.
Classroom minutes
Where Battle of Waterloo is on the syllabus -- in Anglophone schools often beside 11 November or a Second World War unit, not always beside Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium's own calendar.
Sayings
Coach tours from Brussels are the English pilgrimage. Prussian monuments are the corrective stop.
Korean readers: a European "decisive afternoon" to set beside Tsushima, not above it.