title: Boignée
text: # Boignée
  
  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.
  
  