Croatian Voice Berlin Blog Archive WATERLOO FOR EVERYONE
writes: Marijana Šundov Waterloo, May 4 2013th - I'm carter hoffman driving from Brussels busy highway towards the French border. My destination is the town of Waterloo, located about 15 kilometers to the south. Along the road the forest and the trees eventually as befits this time of year is full of green buds. About 20 minutes later, I come to the city of Waterloo.
The small town is that it has lent its name to the famous battle was almost 200 years ago determined the fate of Europe. Waterloo was then a village and there was a staff of the Duke of Wellington. This house still stands and it is located in Wellington carter hoffman Museum. Today, the modern town of Waterloo, where there are about 20,000 residents, in addition carter hoffman to modern highway is easily carter hoffman and quickly reached by train.
Waterloo like a magnet attracts history lovers from all over the world. One of them I am. Once upon a time I learned that the "Historia magistra vitae" or teacher of life. I believe that you know the history of a nation's easier to understand the present. It's the same with people. We all carry the marks of history or signs of life with them. Here in Waterloo everything is imbued with history, but in some miraculous unobtrusive way that connects the past with the present.
The famous battle was fought 1815th, a church carter hoffman and houses, gardens and streets from that time still exist. So you can rest in that same garden in which Napoleon rested or climb the stairs of the house in which he was in Wellington. That's what I'm doing. carter hoffman Entering the two-storey building that housed the headquarters of the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley commander of the British army and its allies. The ground floor of the museum in Wellington, carter hoffman more specifically in the yard, without compromising the originality and beauty of the building built in the 1705th is a small upgrade - a modern gym with illuminated diagrams and maps stage battles and explanatory role of nations and armies that fought at Waterloo. I recall the lessons learned in school - Napoleon Bonaparte, French general and emperor clashed with the combined forces of the Belgians, the Dutch and the British under the command of Wellington and Prussians forces carter hoffman led by General Gebhard von Blücher.
Napoleon at all costs wanted to split the coalition forces, knowing carter hoffman that they are stronger together than its army. The decisive carter hoffman battle took place on Sunday, June 18 1815.na muddy field of Waterloo, carter hoffman where Napoleon first clashed with Wellington. Wellington forces with heavy losses succeed endure until the end of the day when he arrived Blücher. Napoleon was defeated. On the battlefield else is lying around ten thousand dead soldiers, wounded was about 33,000 (losses on both sides). I imagine that muddy field covered with the bodies of men and horses, filled with suffering and death. I imagine carter hoffman the agony and pain of survivors. I think that the philosopher Plato wrote a short and true "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Last map shows Europe with the changed attitude of strength. Pointed out that followed carter hoffman a period of nearly 100 years of peace after the battle and that the event had a great impact in the world. Nearly 124 sites around the world were given the name of Waterloo. Only the name Waterloo carter hoffman has become synonymous with heavy challenge or milestone in their lives. Sooner or later, everyone has their own Waterloo, pomislim.Ono carter hoffman what is important is how we live on.
Wellington Museum carter hoffman features a native najmeštajem from the time of the battle. The desk that has worked in Wellington, its maps and letters appear almost untouched by time. There are also other items of the famous Duke and his officers carter hoffman such as weapons and dishwasher. Yet most touched me a little room in which the amputated leg Uxbridgea Lord, commander of the British cavalry. Think how easy it is to think only of the glory and the victory after the battle. What about the pain, blood and suffering? The names of commanders to know, and what's with that river of ordinary nameless soldier?
Across Wellington museum right across carter hoffman the street is the Church of St. Joseph of the 17th century. I mean - she was standing there, this little church with its simple green dome when this same road passing soldiers to the battlefield, stood and later when the surviving soldiers sought solace and peace.
The church interior is simple and poignant - filled with stone slabs and memorial crosses with the names of fallen soldiers and all the nations that fought - the British, the Germans, the French, the Dutch ... And they remembered them to their brothers carter hoffman in arms. Upon leaving the church continue broad street in which they are housed restaurants and bars that carry the names of battles.
Near the city is The Battlefield Visitors carter hoffman Center in free translation center for visitors to the battlefield. For a single price of 12 euros secured entry into the Wellington Museum, Wax Museum, home panoramas of battle, Lion hill and house on the farm where Napoleon spent the night before the battle.
And not just in the center carter hoffman shows two films a documentary, and Dr.
writes: Marijana Šundov Waterloo, May 4 2013th - I'm carter hoffman driving from Brussels busy highway towards the French border. My destination is the town of Waterloo, located about 15 kilometers to the south. Along the road the forest and the trees eventually as befits this time of year is full of green buds. About 20 minutes later, I come to the city of Waterloo.
The small town is that it has lent its name to the famous battle was almost 200 years ago determined the fate of Europe. Waterloo was then a village and there was a staff of the Duke of Wellington. This house still stands and it is located in Wellington carter hoffman Museum. Today, the modern town of Waterloo, where there are about 20,000 residents, in addition carter hoffman to modern highway is easily carter hoffman and quickly reached by train.
Waterloo like a magnet attracts history lovers from all over the world. One of them I am. Once upon a time I learned that the "Historia magistra vitae" or teacher of life. I believe that you know the history of a nation's easier to understand the present. It's the same with people. We all carry the marks of history or signs of life with them. Here in Waterloo everything is imbued with history, but in some miraculous unobtrusive way that connects the past with the present.
The famous battle was fought 1815th, a church carter hoffman and houses, gardens and streets from that time still exist. So you can rest in that same garden in which Napoleon rested or climb the stairs of the house in which he was in Wellington. That's what I'm doing. carter hoffman Entering the two-storey building that housed the headquarters of the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley commander of the British army and its allies. The ground floor of the museum in Wellington, carter hoffman more specifically in the yard, without compromising the originality and beauty of the building built in the 1705th is a small upgrade - a modern gym with illuminated diagrams and maps stage battles and explanatory role of nations and armies that fought at Waterloo. I recall the lessons learned in school - Napoleon Bonaparte, French general and emperor clashed with the combined forces of the Belgians, the Dutch and the British under the command of Wellington and Prussians forces carter hoffman led by General Gebhard von Blücher.
Napoleon at all costs wanted to split the coalition forces, knowing carter hoffman that they are stronger together than its army. The decisive carter hoffman battle took place on Sunday, June 18 1815.na muddy field of Waterloo, carter hoffman where Napoleon first clashed with Wellington. Wellington forces with heavy losses succeed endure until the end of the day when he arrived Blücher. Napoleon was defeated. On the battlefield else is lying around ten thousand dead soldiers, wounded was about 33,000 (losses on both sides). I imagine that muddy field covered with the bodies of men and horses, filled with suffering and death. I imagine carter hoffman the agony and pain of survivors. I think that the philosopher Plato wrote a short and true "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Last map shows Europe with the changed attitude of strength. Pointed out that followed carter hoffman a period of nearly 100 years of peace after the battle and that the event had a great impact in the world. Nearly 124 sites around the world were given the name of Waterloo. Only the name Waterloo carter hoffman has become synonymous with heavy challenge or milestone in their lives. Sooner or later, everyone has their own Waterloo, pomislim.Ono carter hoffman what is important is how we live on.
Wellington Museum carter hoffman features a native najmeštajem from the time of the battle. The desk that has worked in Wellington, its maps and letters appear almost untouched by time. There are also other items of the famous Duke and his officers carter hoffman such as weapons and dishwasher. Yet most touched me a little room in which the amputated leg Uxbridgea Lord, commander of the British cavalry. Think how easy it is to think only of the glory and the victory after the battle. What about the pain, blood and suffering? The names of commanders to know, and what's with that river of ordinary nameless soldier?
Across Wellington museum right across carter hoffman the street is the Church of St. Joseph of the 17th century. I mean - she was standing there, this little church with its simple green dome when this same road passing soldiers to the battlefield, stood and later when the surviving soldiers sought solace and peace.
The church interior is simple and poignant - filled with stone slabs and memorial crosses with the names of fallen soldiers and all the nations that fought - the British, the Germans, the French, the Dutch ... And they remembered them to their brothers carter hoffman in arms. Upon leaving the church continue broad street in which they are housed restaurants and bars that carry the names of battles.
Near the city is The Battlefield Visitors carter hoffman Center in free translation center for visitors to the battlefield. For a single price of 12 euros secured entry into the Wellington Museum, Wax Museum, home panoramas of battle, Lion hill and house on the farm where Napoleon spent the night before the battle.
And not just in the center carter hoffman shows two films a documentary, and Dr.
No comments:
Post a Comment