Waterloo, Belgium Waterloo, Belgium Waterloo (, , ) is a Walloon municipality in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which in 2011 had a population of 29,706 and an area of . It is north of Braine-l'Alleud, which is the site of the Battle of Waterloo, where the resurgent Napoleon was defeated for the final time in 1815. Waterloo is a Francophone town. The placename has Brabantian Dutch origins. The first element is most likely "water", but it should be understood locally as "wet". The second element is "lo(o)", an ancient word for "forest" or "clearing in a forest", coming either from
The Battle of Waterloo (film) After the start of World War I, many of the same filmmakers who produced Waterloo were put to work on propaganda films, the most famous of which is "The Battle of the Somme". The original prints of "The Battle of Waterloo" were made on nitrate film and have since been destroyed by irreversible nitrate decomposition. Only fragments survive in the British Film Institute archive. The entire film was thought lost until 2002, when 22 minutes were rediscovered in the archive. Additional fragments have been compiled, the equivalent of about two and a half reels of film. The Battle of Waterloo