Ligny,

Ligny, a Belgian village, 13 miles by rail NE. of Charleroi, famous for the defeat of the Prussians under Blücher by the French under Napoleon, 16th June 1815, the same day on which Ney's command was engaged with the British under Wellington at Quatre-Bras. The Prussians lost 12,000 men and 21 cannon; the French, 7000 men. See Gardner's Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo (1882).