MONT ST. JEAN. 11. Route, 153

amounted io about 14,000 men.
g 456 officers ; the German con-
The total loss of the Prussians was
0 e The Netherlanders estimated their
lose a6 4000 from the 15th to 18th Taine The loss of the Ene De ha never
bee ; d, but probabl amount d to 25,000 at 1 780
About French guns were es lek:
eee sians.

y among historians, whether the
eat attributable to ihe British or
wer probably is that the contest would
relay artLy ah of the Prussians. The
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About halfway to Mont St. Jean, which is about 2 M. from
Watepan, is ie monument of Col. Stables, situated behind a farm-
house on the right, and not visible from the road. ‘The road to the
left to the royal chateau of Teryueren (p. 147), that to the
ht to Braine-le-Chateau.

The road from Waterloo to Mont St. Jean (p. 149) is bordered
by an almost uninterrupted succession of houses. At the village,
as already remarked, the road to Nivelles diverges to the right from
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On the left, the cross-roads, stands an Obelisk to the
memory of the Hanoverian officers of the German Legion, among
whose names that of the gallant Ompteda stands first. Opposite to
it rises a Pillar to the memory of Colonel Gordon, bearing a-touch-
ing inscription. Both these monuments stand on the original level
of the ground, which has here peat considerably lowered to furnish
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3 the highroad at k , leading to the left
i and to the right to Braine ’Alleud. Here,
it, once stood an elm, under which the Duke
said to have remained during the greater part of
however, is unfounded, as it well known
ubiquitous on that memorable occasion.
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