Frischermont

Frischermont Castle, shortly after the Battle of Waterloo.

Châteaux Frischermont or Fichermont in the Belgian municipality of Lasne is now a ruin (destroyed by fire in and demolished in 1965).^[1][2] At the start of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 it was garrisoned by Dutch soldiers on the eastern most flank of Wellington's defensive line.

In 1705 the Châteaux was for a time the headquarters of the Duke of Marlborough.^[3] While at Frischermont Marlborough wrote that the escarpment of Mont-Saint-Jean would be a good place to defend Brussels if it was attacked from the south.^[4]

At the start of the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815 it belonged to Monsieur Beaulieu,^[5] and it was garrisoned by troops of the 28th Regiment, Orange-Nassau (Regiment Oranje-Nassau No. 28) under the command of Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar. It was here at 10:30 that a French patrol drove back Dutch pickets the first fighting of the day took place.^[4]

Notes

1. In some sources also Châteaux Frichermont
2. Mason 2015, p. 49.
3. Lipscombe 2016, p. ~151.
4. Staff 2015.
5. Glover 2014, p. 165.

References

• Glover, Gareth (2014), Waterloo: Myth and Reality, Pen and Sword, p. 165–167, ISBN 978-1-78159-356-1
• Lipscombe, Nick (2016), Waterloo: The Decisive Victory, Bloomsbury Publishing, p. ~151, ISBN 978-1-4728-1047-2
• Mason, Antony (2015), Waterloo & Beyond (illustrated ed.), Bradt Travel Guides, p. 49, ISBN 9781784770013
• Staff (2015), "Walking the Battlefield of Waterloo", Waterloo 200, retrieved 21 October 2016

Coordinates: 50°40′39″N 4°26′42″E / 50.67763°N 4.44490°E