Boignée
Bougnî (Walloon)
Village
The church neighbourhood
The church neighbourhood
Boignée is located in Belgium
Boignée
Boignée
Coordinates: 50°31′26.78″N 4°33′23.96″E / 50.5241056°N 4.5566556°E / 50.5241056; 4.5566556
Country Belgium
Region Wallonia
Province Namur
Municipality Sombreffe
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)

Boignée (Walloon: Bougnî) 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

  1. ↑ Siborne 1848, pp. 200–201, 207–208, 210, 211.
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  • Siborne, William (1848), The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 (4th ed.), Westminster: A. Constable


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