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| Picture No | 11963813 |
| Date | 1815 |
| Description | Battle of Waterloo - house where Napoleon stayed night befor |
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The house in which Napoleon passed the night before the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. One of a number of sketches made by Robert Hills about a month after the battle. He wrote of the building, "The Prussians, vowing it should never again harbour this chief of their former oppressor, burned it,"
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| Source | Painting by Robert Hills reproduced in The Illustrated London News, Christmas number 1945 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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