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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 430 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WAVRE , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Belgium, in the See also:

province of See also:

Brabant, 14 M. S.E. of See also:

BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels. Pop. (1904) 8517. It. was on this See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place that See also:

GROUCHY, EMMANUEL, MARQUIS DE (1766-1847)

Grouchy advanced on the See also:

day of See also:

WATERLOO

Waterloo, gaining a useless success here over a Prussian See also:

CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps while the See also:

FATE

fate of the See also:

CAMPAIGN

campaign was being decided elsewhere. The Prussians erected here a See also:

FINE

fine See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument by See also:

VAN

Van Oemberg in 1859.

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