Victory or defeat radiation Waterloo（一）

A national capital, is also chairman of the NATO headquarters and the EU headquarters in Brussels is quite a prestigious reputation.

However, there is a small town south of 18.7 kilometers, of fame but does not seem to give way.

Waterloo, a written history of ancient and modern war must not bypass the place.

This is located in the north central town of Western Europe was originally a village, turn upside down if the calendar back 180 years, we can imagine that it's barren and occlusion. Long restless European war while burning and looting from time to time over here, but, and most of nowhere, like no one will remember or bring it to hill, ridge slope and small flat as the basic landscape features villages. June 18, 1815, an unusually brutal ongoing war here more than 10 hours later, Waterloo will be universally known overnight.

180 years later, we, as one well-known from the spectators, among the bustling crowds, the famous ancient battlefield, called to pay homage, but in reality is a visit to a deduction made by the famous wars of the world-class tourist attractions. Waterloo town's people have no vision for the country with surprise guests, who come here are generally reluctant to visit a piece of thin pieces of yellow and then refurbished image; not quite ready to watch have been intermixed into the still shot, obviously with the nature of modern battle simulation game film. They are willing to step up the stairs along the 229, climbing really tall pyramid made of man-made earthworks of Iron Lion Peak. This hill is the ancient symbol of the battlefield, but also viewing platform, exposure to top platform, you can overview look around, you can lyrics to pay homage to the war situation back then ups and downs ... ...

This five 60-meter-high earth package, is 10 years after the war in 1825, the coalition hired a lot of manpower, with his backpack and used car, a few kilometers away from the earth stacked here.

Now is the clay barrier up, why, also known as "Iron Lion Peak"?

- Originally built in 1825, soil stacks, with a peak on the handsome and imposing cast iron lion, lion known to nearly 20 tons of weight, is to use the guns of war in incomplete melting scrap for smelting the iron lion under the stele inscribed simply "1815 • 6 • 18" indicate the date of such a figure, but never saw the other inscriptions or inscriptions, this implies in particular, I am most - in the long river of history, the most important thing is the natural time itself.

As to how to explain or comment this historic event? Entirely a matter of opinion. Such as forepaw grasp only a symbol of the world's iron ball, with eyes gazing disdainfully distant male lion, in the end the lion a symbol of who? From the time of casting are concerned, perhaps this has been a symbol of the coalition forces defeated Napoleon's Europe, but today people visit here, be it the Lion only as Napoleon?