| 词条 | Caillou Museum | ||
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The Caillou Museum is housed in the building where Napoleon Bonaparte spent the night and early morning before the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. It is located {{convert|4|km|miles}} south of the Lion of Waterloo, at Chaussée de Bruxelles (Brussels high-road) 66, 1472 Genappe. Travelling north from Genappe the high-road passes pass over the Waterloo battlefield through Waterloo and on to Brussels. HistoryIn 1815 the farmhouse belonged to Séance de Caioux.{{sfn|Hills|1816|p=93}}{{efn|Robert Hills notes "The French official details say, that the Emperor's" head quarters were at the farm of Oaillon, near Planchenoit. Caioux was its name, as written for me by a farmer near the spot" {{harv|Hills|1816|p=93}}.}} Napoleon resided there on the night of the 17/18 of June 1815,{{sfn|Hills|1816|p=93}} and it is where Napoleon held his breakfast conference at which he told his marshals "Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad troops, and this affair is nothing more than eating breakfast".{{sfn|Longford|1971|p=547}} A day after the battle, the Prussians, vowing that it should never again harbour their former enemy, burnt the farmhouse.{{sfn|Hills|1816|p=93}} MuseumThe museum houses unique pieces, such as the Emperor's camp bed and table he used during the campaign.{{sfn|Point|2015}} Notes{{notelist}}References
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