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ARTILLERY FIRE IN 1815
Hougoumont Château. During the Battle of Waterloo, it was bombarded all day by Napoleon's cannon. Result: A small out-building wrecked (ruin in the foreground), a corner at the peak of the chapel (to the left) knocked off, and some small holes, since repaired, in the front wall and the roofs.
ARTILLERY FIRE IN 1915
A château in Northern France. It was wrecked by a single big-calibre German shell.