Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Monument des Ecossais au Brisquet
Buzancy, Aisne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Le monument : classement par arrêté du 26 juin 1922
- Protection dates
- 1922/06/26 : classé MH
- Type
- monument
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1918
- Ownership
- propriété d'un pays étranger
- Commune
- Buzancy
- Département
- Aisne
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.31464, 3.34163
- Mérimée reference
- PA00115570
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1821 map "Etat-Major Paris 1:10,000 (c. 1821)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce monument, érigé le 10 août 1918, lors de la reconquête alliée, est dédié aux soldats écossais. Le cimetière avoisinant regroupe un grand nombre de sépultures écossaises. Le monument est formé d'un simple obélisque portant un chardon gravé et l'inscription Ici fleurira toujours le glorieux chardon d'Ecosse parmi les roses de France.
English translation
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History
This monument, erected on 10 August 1918, during the Allied reconquest, is dedicated to Scottish soldiers. The adjoining cemetery groups a large number of Scottish burials. The monument is formed of a simple obelisk bearing an engraved thistle and the inscription Here shall ever flourish the glorious thistle of Scotland among the roses of France.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.