Boignée
Boignée
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Village | |
 The church neighbourhood | |
  Boignée Location within Belgium | |
| Coordinates: 50°31′26.78″N 4°33′23.96″E / 50.5241056°N 4.5566556°E | |
| Country | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
| Region | Wallonia |
| Province | Namur |
| Municipality | Sombreffe |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
Boignée (French pronunciation: [bwaɲe]; Walloon: Bwagnéye) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Sombreffe, located in the province of Namur, Belgium.
Previously its own municipality, a 1977 fusion of the Belgian municipalities made it an ancienne commune of Sombreffe. Boignée is on the banks of the river Ligny.
History
The village of Boignée was a location taken up and defended by the Prussian army during the Battle of Ligny on 16 June 1815.[1]
References
- ↑ Siborne 1848, pp. 200–201, 207–208, 210, 211.
External links
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- Siborne, William (1848), The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 (4th ed.), Westminster: A. Constable