The lion mound on the battlefield at Waterloo About UsIn 1973 the Duke of Wellington founded The Waterloo Committee following a successful joint effort with Lord Anglesey to stop the building of a motorway across the battlefield in Belgium. Since then the Waterloo Committee has continued to preserve and enhance the battlefield, encourage historical research and promote public education and appreciation of the history of the wars between Great Britain, her allies, and France. With the bi-centenary of that battle of 1815 now only a few years away, a commemorative Committee has been established, ‘Waterloo 200’. Waterloo 200 Ltd is an umbrella organisation approved and supported by Government to oversee the celebration of the 200th annivesary of the Battle of Waterloo. It can bestow official status upon organisations that it feels would make a valuable contribution to the celebrations and, indeed, the general good of the countries involved. In 2009 Waterloo 200 Ltd was granted charitable status. |
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