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Château d’Hougoumont (originally Goumont) is a large farmhouse situated at the bottom of an escarpment near the Nivelles road in Braine-l’Alleud near Waterloo Belgium. The escarpment is where British and other allied forces faced Napoleon’s Army at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18 1815.The name Hougoumont is derived from Gomme Mont which means Gum hill.[citation needed] It was built on a little hill with pine trees around it from which pine gum was collected to make turpentine.
