Brussels - Waterloo - Brussels

Brussels-Waterloo-Brussels.
Sightseeing car and walking tour.

We will be on the road for about 25 minutes, moving to the south of Belgium.

The Battle of Waterloo in 1815, almost yesterday, marked the two hundredth anniversary of the decisive battle, in which Napoleon Bonaparte's army was finally defeated.
... The battle turned 20 kilometers from Brussels, on a field that territorially still belongs to the village of Bren-le-Alleux.
For obvious reasons, for this battle, the chroniclers chose the name of the neighboring village, as for the English, it was an unpronounceable and somewhat ridiculous French expression full of consonant sounds, came from Rome.

Napoleon is his hundred days. Last chance to recover, after a string of defeats and exile to Elba Island.
“A few more victories and I will be loved again,” he was sure of this, because he really had many victories that drove crazy all the generals of the world – more than 60 ten battles won without defeat, victory after victory ... and then such a finale ...
Tonight Napoleon will take poison, but the poison will not kill him... and then St. Helena.

Belgium will remain part of the Netherlands for another 15 years. It was only after a small revolution in 1830 that it gained independence and became the Kingdom of Belgium.
The first king of Belgium - Leopold the first was a general of the Russian army and a close friend of the Russian Tsar Alexander the First.
As it was written in the newspapers of London, Russia made the revolution in the Netherlands. They pushed Catholics and Protestants (and they have a long-standing dislike for each other).
And the south separated and became Belgium: 22,000 square kilometers with a population of 12 million; access to the sea and its port, second only to the port of Rotterdam in the neighboring Netherlands.

Then, after the Museum of the Battle of Waterloo, we go to Brussels for a sightseeing car and walking tour of the capital of the Kingdom of Belgium.

Total tour time:
Waterloo 2 hours + Brussels 2.5 hours.