where was Waterloo?

I have twice raised the question: “In what country was the battle of Waterloo fought?” Waterloo is now in Belgium, but that state was created fifteen years later. Well, I finally bothered to go looking for an answer to the question . .

Waterloo was fought nine days after the end of the Congress of Vienna, during which the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which included what we now call Belgium, was created.

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One Response to where was Waterloo?

  1. Anton says:

    The question I really had in mind was: what pre-Napoleonic state? I have half a memory of concluding, tentatively, that Waterloo was in the Bishopric of Liège.

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