Genappe

Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, “There are four and twenty handsome maids, General.”

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Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during the battle.

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Where the great pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises today, there was a hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe.

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It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers had taken place.

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At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle front, to draw up in line.

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The Prussians threw themselves into Genappe, furious, no doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors.

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Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other.

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The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, the German tomb, is on the right.

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The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre – Bras, traversed

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Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level with the plain; it was then a hollow way.

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