Mont-Saint-Jean
Mont-Saint-Jean , village, Walloon Brabant prov., central Belgium, on a height S of Waterloo. The British resisted the French onslaught there at the end of the Waterloo campaign (1815).
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Waterloo campaign
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...victorious, was compelled to retreat toward Brussels. Wellington took up a strong position S of Waterloo, between Mont-Saint-Jean and Belle-Alliance, and awaited attack. On June 18, about noon, Napoleon began a massed attack against the British...
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