Wagnelée

Wagnelée Wagnlêye
Village
The church of Sainte-Gertrude.
Wagnelée
Coordinates: 50°31′23.23″N 4°31′58.87″E / 50.5231194°N 4.5330194°E / 50.5231194; 4.5330194Coordinates: 50°31′23.23″N 4°31′58.87″E / 50.5231194°N 4.5330194°E / 50.5231194; 4.5330194
Country	Belgium
Province	Namur
Municipality	Fleurus]
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)

Wagnelée (Walloon: Wagnlêye) is a village that is part of the municipality of Fleurus, Belgium. Fleurus is located in the Arrondissement of Charleroi in Hainaut province. The Wagnelée post code is 6223 and the telephone zone code is 071.

Wagnelée was its own municipality until the fusion of the Belgian municipalities in 1977 when it merged with Fleurus.

History

In 1815 Wagnelée one of a string of villages that formed the front line between the Prussian army commanded by Gebhard von Blücher and the French Army of the North commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Ligny. Wagnelée was on the extreme right flank of the Prussian line and was held by the Prussians throughout the battle.^[1]

References

References

• Siborne, William (1848), The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 (4th ed.), Westminster: A. Constable