WATERLOO.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 232, 24 June 1908, Page 7

WATERLOO.

A COMMEMORATION MOVEMENT. ' • 1 ' BY TELEGRAM —PREBS ASSOCIATION —COPTRIGQX. London, June 22.' A scheme has "beeh initiated for a Britisl national monument at Waterloo (Belgium), to commemorate .the battle. vJHE BATTLE,—THE 'KAISER'S CLAIM. At Waterloo, on June 18, 1815, the allies, undor tho Duke of Wellington, with G7.GGI men and 156 guns, resisted Napoleon's French army (71,947 men and 246 guns) from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. About that time, IG.OOO Prussians reached the field, and by 7 p.m. Blucher had 50,000 men and 104 guns at hand. Wellington then moved forward his wholo army, and the French •were totally routed. On December 19, 1903, the Gorman Emperor raised a storm by congratulating tho German legion " on having saved the British army from at' Waterloo." Thfe proposed Watorlqp monument will not bo the first in Belgium. A Waterloo monument over the officers and men who fell in the campaign of 1815, erected in a cemetery at Brussels by Queen Victoria, was unveiled by the Dulce of Cambridge on August 2G, IS9O. By tho side of tho chapel of Waterloo, which was uninjured by. shot or shell on Juno 18, 1815, the Duke of Marlborough cut i'off a large division of the French.forces, on; I .August 17, 1705. Wellington and Marlborough, conqueror! on tho same fiold, are the only British com' manders whose career, brought them to duke doms. ~.