Waterloo Tour: On the French right

Waterloo Tour: On The French Right Flank

These pictures were taken standing on the fields where the I Corps of General Drouet d'Erlon stood. In 1815 these field were filled with crops so what you see now isn't what d'Erlons soldiers saw.

View North-Northeast

On the left of the picture you can see Papelotte and on the right a part of La-Haie.

View Northeast

This picture shows the direction from which the Prussians came. In the middle of the picture behind the woods lies Frichermont and the big woods in the background is the "Bois de Paris."

View Northwest

You can see La-Haie-Sainte's rooftops and the position of the Allied Squares (now the Lion's Mount" in this picture. It was approximately along this line that Ney led the French heavy cavalry in a series of unsupported attacks against those squares.

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