La Belle Alliance
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La Belle Alliance is an inn situated a few miles south of Brussells in Belgium.
On the morning of June 18, 1815 the inn became Napoleon Bonaparte's headquarters for the Battle of Waterloo.
After the battle Blucher, the Prussian Commander, suggested that the Battle should be remembered as la Belle-Alliance, to commemorate the European alliance of Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia which had gathered to defeat the French Emperor. The Duke of Wellington, the Supreme commander of the allied army, instead recommended Waterloo, the village just north of the battlefield, where he himself had spent the previous night, commenting that it would not do to name the battle after the loser's command post.
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