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The Belle-alliance, or the female reformers of Blackburn!!! · To The Barricades. The Belle-alliance, or the female reformers of Blackburn!!! IMG_0406.JPG. Details. By 1819, there was a growing dissatisfaction amongst female radicals towards the apathy of male reformers and their political advocacy.
At about 9 pm on the 18 June 1815, two British and Prussian generals, the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshall Blücher, met at a farm just south of Waterloo called La Belle Alliance. They had just beaten Napoleon I in battle, and Blücher was keen to call the battle ‘Die Schlacht von Belle-Alliance’, in […]
It depicts the moment towards the end of the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, when the commanders of the allied British and Prussian armies, the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher, met near La Belle Alliance. Measuring 3.68 by 13.92 metres (12.1 ft × 45.7 ft), it is displayed in the Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster.
Jun 18, 2015 · The Battle of Waterloo, or La Belle Alliance, has two names, neither of which is exactly appropriate. The first is a large handsome village, three miles in the rear of the ground where the...
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The Belle Alliance or the Female Reformers of Blackburn!!! After the Napoleonic Wars there was a strong popular movement for the reform of Parliament and the political system. The artist George Cruikshank made this print after reading an article about a reform meeting in Blackburn on 5 July 1819 that was also attended by the Committee of the ...
La Belle Alliance is an inn situated a few miles south of Brussels in Belgium, chiefly remembered for its significance in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815).
The aftermath of the battle, with the symbolic meeting of Wellington and Blücher at La Belle Alliance amidst the dead and dying, began the long process of political change in Europe, which resulted in several decades of peace.
