The roads date back to the days of Caesar.

The stone farmhouses, as well as the stone churches, were built to endure.

And for centuries, until this war came, they had endured.

After the battle of Waterloo some of these stone farmhouses found themselves famous.

In them Napoleon or Wellington had spread his maps or set up his cot, and until this war the farmhouses of Mont-Saint-Jean, of Caillou, of Haie-Sainte, of the Belle-Alliance remained as they were on the day of the great battle a hundred years ago.