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Wavre
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a town of Belgium, in the province of Brabant, 14 m. S.E. of Brussels. Pop. (1904) 8517. It was on this place that Grouchy advanced on the day of Waterloo, gaining a useless success here over a Prussian corps while the fate of the campaign was being decided elsewhere. The Prussians erected here a fine monument by Van Oemberg in 1859.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Wavre'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/w/wavre.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Wavre'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/w/wavre.html. 1910.
