Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo by Ionic pilasters, and crowned with parapet with a frieze of palmettes. The entrance porch has two pairs of Tuscan columns supporting a triangular pediment. The rotunda houses an oil-on-canvas painting completed by French artist Louis Dumoulin in 1912, with 14 canvas panels sewn together to create a cylinder approximately in circumference and high. It is lit from above by a ring of glazing around the edge of the conical roof and is viewed from a high platform at the centre of the rotunda. The painting depicts several different episodes from the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, concentrating on charges
Waterloo Campaign: Ligny through Wavre to Waterloo in line, with the third in support. It was 17:30 when this took place and the moment when the Prussians became fully engaged in the Battle of Waterloo. Grouchy's movements, on 17–18 June, form so striking a feature in the history of the Waterloo Campaign, and exercised so important an influence upon the fate of the decisive Battle of Waterloo, that it becomes an essential point in the study of that history, to examine how far he complied with, and carried into effect, the instructions received from Napoleon, and to what degree his proceedings, consequent upon his ascertaining the direction