Wavre, a town in the Belgian province of Brabant, 15 miles SE. of Brussels by rail; pop. 7432. Here on the 18th June 1815 there was a fiercely contested battle between the Prussians under Thielmann and the French under Grouchy, in which the Prussians successfully prevented the French from joining Napoleon at Waterloo.
Wavre,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 583
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