La Belle Alliance
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La Belle Alliance is an inn situated a few miles south of Brussels in Belgium.
On the morning of June 18, 1815 the inn became Napoleon Bonaparte's headquarters for the Battle of Waterloo.
After the battle at around 21:00 the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Blücher met close to the inn signifying the end of the battle.
Blücher the Prussian commander, suggested that the Battle should be remembered as la Belle Alliance, to commemorate the European Seventh Coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, and a number of German States which had all joined the coalition to defeat the French Emperor. Wellington, who had chosen the field and commanded the an allied army which had fought the French all day, 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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