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18 June 1815 – Victory at Waterloo – La Haye Sainte. Plaque to the King's German Legion

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English: Plaque imbedded in 1847 in the eastern gable of the La Haye Sainte main building, overlooking the road N.5, replacing a previous marble tablet presumably affixed in 1818, along with the construction of the monument to the K.G.L. : ►(File:18 June 1815 – Victory at Waterloo – Hanoverian Monument, The South Face.jpg).


About the plaque.
En mémoire de la défense de la Haie-Sainte, le corps des officiers Anglo-Hanovriens du deuxième bataillon léger de la légion royale allemande fit encastrer, dans le pignon de la ferme vers la route, une plaque de marbre blanc, où on rappelait la mort glorieuse de plusieurs officiers de ce bataillon ; en 1847, le prince George, actuellement roi de Hanovre, l'a fait remplacer par une plaque de fer carrée et posée en losange. On y lit, en lettres saillantes et dorées : (...).

La ferme a été rebâtie et est, comme jadis, bornée au sud par un verger. Les champs voisins, où le carnage a été affreux, constituent en réalité une immense nécropole. Une seule fosse, pratiquée dans la vallon, vers l'est, a reçu les corps de 4,000 soldats et d'un grand nombre de chevaux.

Tarlier, Charles ; Wauters, Alphonse, Géographie et histoire des communes belges, vol. 1, Novembre 1869, 78.

TRANSLATION
In memory of the defense of La Haie-Sainte, the corps of Anglo-Hanoverian officers of the second light battalion of the royal German legion had a white marble tablet embedded in the gable of the farm towards the road, where the glorious death of several officers of this battalion was recalled; in 1847, the prince George, currently King of Hanover, had it replaced by a square iron plate laid in a diamond pattern. It reads, in protruding and gilded letters: (...).

The farm has been rebuilt and is, as in the past, bounded to the south by an orchard. The neighbouring fields, where the carnage was horrendous, are in reality a huge necropolis. A single pit, made in the valley to the east, received the bodies of 4,000 soldiers and a large number of horses.
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