ABSTRACT
Netherlands prisoner of war who allegedly raised the town of Chareloi against the French after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo. According to historian Demetrius C. Boulger (1901), when Gneisenau’s Prussians entered Charleroi on 19 June 1815, in pursuit of Napoleon’s vanquished Waterloo army, they found the place under the control of a certain Netherlands officer named Lieutenant van Uchelen. This man had apparently been captured by the French on 17 June, arriving at Charleroi next day:
There he was forgotten by the French, and during the night of the 18th-19th he raised the townspeople, organised them into a police, and was in possession when the victors arrived on the 19th.
