Belgium To Repair Waterloo Site

The government said Friday it will spend about $781,000 to shore up the 130-foot mound where Napoleon made his last stand in 1815.

The grass-covered “Butte de Lion” (Lion’s Mound) that marks the Waterloo battlefield outside Brussels is sagging because of heavy rains.

The work is to be finished in time for June 17-18 festivities marking the 180th anniversary of the battle where Napoleon’s 125,000 soldiers clashed with 630,000 others from Prussia, England, the Netherlands, Austria and Russia.

That three-day battle, in which some 60,000 people died, was Napoleon’s last.