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    Posted 10 years ago

    vetraio50
    (751 items)

    Another card collected by Septimus and Clara Miller in 1907 is one of an important site to the Battle of Waterloo. La Ferme de Mont-Saint-Jean is a farmhouse situated not far from the battlefield at Mont-Saint-Jean.

    An interesting fact is that the Battle of Waterloo was referred to as the «Bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean» by Napoléon Bonaparte because of its proximity to the battlefield.

    The Prussians had another name too for the battle but that is another story!

    On the evening of June 17 Napoleon set up his headquarters in the Ferme du Caillou, while Wellington established his headquarters in Waterloo and bivouacked his troops in the Ferme Mont-Saint-Jean. The farmhouse was used as a military hospital for the English troops.

    Wellington was occupying the ridge of Mont-Saint-Jean to the south of Waterloo and Napoleon a ridge called La Belle Alliance across the valley.

    Wellington stayed at the Ferme Mont-Saint-Jean on the night of June 17 before the battle.

    During the battle one of the wounded treated there was the Prince d'Orange. He had been knocked off his horse when hit in the shoulder by a bullet. The wounded were treated here by surgeons who amputated limbs without anaesthetic and you can imagine the scene of limbs piled high around the four corners of the courtyard: « s'entassent aux quatre coins de la cour de la ferme”.

    This is a card published by Albert Sugg of Ghent Series 29 No. 12.

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    1. vetraio50 vetraio50, 10 years ago
      Many thanks AGHCOLLECT!!!
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      Love all the postcards and their history vetraio50 :) You must have a vast collection.
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      Many thanks MIKELV!!!
    6. SEAN68 SEAN68, 10 years ago
      love the building :) history is awesome!!
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      Many thanks SEAN 'n AMBER too!!!
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      Many thanks POPS, PHIL, TREY 'n GARY too!!!!!
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      Many thanks MANIKIN!
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    15. dlpetersen, 6 years ago
      Love it, most people don't think how back when these postcards were made, before TV and the internet, this is how the world was shared.

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