Waterloo Campaign: Quatre Bras to Waterloo Waterloo Campaign: Quatre Bras to Waterloo After the fighting at Quatre Bras (16 June 1815) the two opposing commanders Marshal Ney and the Duke of Wellington initially held their ground while they obtained information about what had happened at the larger Battle of Ligny. They received intelligence that the Prussian army under the command of Prince Blücher had been defeated by the French Army of the North under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte. Upon receiving this news Wellington organised the retreat of the Anglo-allied army to a place he had identified a year before as the best place in Belgium
Waterloo Lines Headquarters Small Arms School Corps who moved to the barracks from Hythe in 1969, and Headquarters Infantry, which was formed in 1996 and is responsible for the recruiting, manning and training policy of the Infantry. Waterloo Lines Waterloo Lines, formerly known as the Land Warfare Centre, is a British Army barracks on Imber Road in Warminster, Wiltshire. It is currently home to a number of Army specialist training schools and a sizeable portion of the Headquarters Field Army, not to be confused with Army HQ in Andover. Waterloo Lines has its origins in the Battle School established near Barnard Castle