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The Lion's Mound (or "Lion's Hillock", "Butte du Lion" in French, "Leeuw van Waterloo" in Dutch) is a large conical artificial hill raised on the battlefield of Waterloo to commemorate the location where William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) was knocked from his horse by a musket ball to the shoulder during the battle. It was ordered constructed in 1820 by his father, King William I of The Netherlands, and completed in 1826. The younger William had fought at the Battle of Quatre Bras (June 16) and the Battle of Waterloo (June 18).

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It was the culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last. The defeat at Waterloo put an end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French and marked the end of his Hundred Days' return from exile.

Upon Napoleon's return to power in 1815, many states that had opposed him formed the Seventh Coalition and began to mobilise armies. Two large forces under Wellington and von Blücher assembled close to the northeastern border of France. Napoleon chose to attack in the hope of destroying them before they could join in a coordinated invasion of France with other members of the Coalition. The decisive engagement of this three-day Waterloo Campaign (16--19 June 1815) occurred at the Battle of Waterloo. According to Wellington, the battle was "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life."[5]

Napoleon delayed giving battle until noon on 18 June to allow the ground to dry. Wellington's army, positioned across the Brussels road on the Mont-Saint-Jean escarpment, withstood repeated attacks by the French, until, in the evening, the Prussians arrived in force and broke through Napoleon's right flank. At that moment, Wellington's Anglo-allied army counter-attacked and drove the French army in disorder from the field. Pursuing Coalition forces entered France and restored Louis XVIII to the French throne. Napoleon abdicated, surrendered to the British, and was exiled to Saint Helena, where he died in 1821.

The battlefield is in present-day Belgium, about eight miles (12 km) southsoutheast of Brussels, and about a mile (1.6 km) from the town of Waterloo. The site of the battlefield is today dominated by a large monument, the Lion Mound. As this mound used earth from the battlefield itself, the original topography of the part of the battlefield around the mound has not been preserved.

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[glambert7777]

Oui, on peut programmer une photo toutes les 2 secondes ou moins. En revanche la résolution est limitée a celle de la HD video, soit 1920x1080. Avec 6 rotors en revanche on peut monter un appareil reflex toutnen conservant la vue video ce qui permet d'aller plus haut que la vol a vue et surtout de mieux cadrer les prises de vues. Ici, n'était un peu chahuté par le vent mais regarde mes autres vidéos tu verras que cela peut être plus stable, par exemple celle du parc de Sceaux. Gregory

[glambert7777]

Yes, I could but this day, the wind was quite strong a I was pushed to the wrong side of the lion. So if compensated, trying to stay stationnary, the camera would have been targeted to the sky...

[philambert]

Super cet engin ! En photo de qualité ça marche aussi ? Ca te mettrait la photo aérienne à pas trop cher..Moi qui vient de payer bien cher une photo aérienne de notre business ! Bravo !

Philippe Lambert

[voodou59]

Un champ de bataille historique et autours... des putains de champs

Sinon super la stabilité! Et vive la HD!

[lkabird]

can you get any closer?

nice!