In July 1815 the
Battle of Issy was fought in and around the village between
Prussian and French forces. It was one of the last actions of the '
Hundred Days' campaign and was the final attempt to defend Paris against the armies of the
Seventh Coalition. On 1 January 1860, the city of Paris was enlarged by annexing neighboring communes. On that occasion, about a third of the commune of Issy-les-Moulineaux was annexed to Paris, and forms now the neighborhood of
Javel, in the 15th arrondissement. The town was once the location of the
Château d'Issy, former home of the
Princes of Conti. It was destroyed in 1871, Issy-les-Moulineaux is home to a community of 5,000
Armenians that have established themselves in the area since the 1930s. The community has two Armenian churches, an athletic club, a school, a monument dedicated to the
Armenian genocide, and streets named after
Armenia, ''Rue d'Armenie
, and Rue d'Erevan'', named after Armenia's capital
Yerevan. Issy-les-Moulineaux became twin cities with
Echmiadzin, Armenia in December 1989. The
Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1895. ==Airfield==