Wellington Museum, Waterloo

Wellington Museum

The Wellington Museum in 2015
Location within Belgium
Established	1954 (1954)
Location	Waterloo, Belgium
Type	War museum
Website	museewellington.be

The Wellington Museum in Waterloo, Belgium, is located in the house where the Duke of Wellington, spent the night before and after the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815).^[1]

The museum contains information about the Duke of Wellington, the Waterloo Campaign, the main phases of the Battle of Waterloo a Gallery and contemporary military artifacts from the armies that fought in the battle.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

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  Headquarters of the Duke of Wellington, by C. C. Hamilton (1817)
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  Wellington's Bedroom, where he slept the night before the battle, and wrote his Waterloo dispatch to Lord Bathurst, British Secretary of War, early in the morning after the battle.
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  The bed in which the mortally wounded Sir Alexander Gordon died in the evening after the battle.
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  Scotland Forever! by Lady Butler (the original is in Leeds Art Gallery
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  The French room
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  Display room on the second floor
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  Prussian medal awarded to the non-combattants who took part at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Collection of the Wellington Museum, Waterloo.

See also

• List of Waterloo Battlefield locations

References

External links

• Media related to Wellington Museum, Waterloo at Wikimedia Commons

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