Wellington was the guy who beat Napoleon in Waterloo, Belgium in 1815. It was a very tight battle, which Napoleon should always have won. Napoleon (and the French) ruled over Belgium until then, after he got it from the Habsburgers when he defeated them in Italy. Napoleon was actually pretty good to Belgium, and it was he who gave the instructions to build the first docks and shipyards in the port of Antwerp. This sign here in Spain puts something indeed real clearly. The prince of Orange, used as his aide-decamp. This prince licked Wellington’s ass for years, and this is why Wellington pushed Belgium into the hands of the Netherlands. Not the best period in our history, where we were robbed and treated….. ‘not nicely’. Belgium gained its independence 15 years later in 1830 and lost some more territory in Limburg through some deception. In theory, the country will celebrate its 200 years independence in 2030, but we probably won’t make it. Often called ‘the battlefield of Europe’ with virtually all nations ruling and fighting there, from Vikings, to romans, Spanish, Habsburgers, French and Germans, the country faces now a much severer enemy: Incompetent, corrupt, nasty, selfish politicians, who will probably cause the country to split up before its 200th anniversary.
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