Fleurus

Fleurus is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. It has been the web site of 4 most important battles. Traces of agriculture relationship again to the Neolithic Age were located in vicinity known as Fleurjoux and Neuve Baraque. During the Roman instances, production of roads like the. Two days earlier than the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 Napoleon I defeated the Prussians in what is known as the Battle of Ligny, even though the pivotal motion took place just north of Fleurus.

The battles had been honored in ship names of the international locations concerned, which in turn has caused Fleurus Island in Antarctica being named after SS Fleurus a Norwegian trawler operated between the Falkland Islands and the whaling station on South Georgia within the Twenties. The "Rue de Fleurus" is on the Left Bank in Paris. In World War II, the only combating close to Fleurus become a tank warfare southwest of the town at Vieux Campinaire in September 1944.