The Guard Attacks
With the Prussians now threatening his flank, Napoleon was forced into making a straight choice between retiring to
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Victory
The Imperial Guards were now clearly recoiling from the murderous allied fire and were returning from the ridge in
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Waterloo Medals
Britain issued its first medal, made of solid silver, for all ranks, for the Battle of Waterloo, as seen above. A number
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The Cost
The field of the Battle of Waterloo was a terrifying and shocking place to be that night and for the following few
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Grouchy
Marshal Grouchy had moved slowly north east from Ligny during the afternoon and evening of 17 June, unsure in which direction
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Invading France
Having pursued the French from the field, the Prussians pushed on all night with their cavalry beating drums and blowing
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Waterloo’s Legacy
Great claims have been made as to the legacy of the Battle of Waterloo; but it is not as clear cut as many may claim;
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Second Lieutenant Richard Cocks Eyre
2nd Battalion 95th Foot Extract from Gareth Glover’s Waterloo Archive 3 On the seventeenth we had some hard skirmishing
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Sergeant Charles Ewart, Scots Greys
Extract from Gareth Glover’s Waterloo Archive 3 The day on which the flag and eagle was taken was the eighteenth of
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Corporal John Stubbings King’s Dragoon Guards
From Gareth Glover’s Waterloo Archive 3 I take the first opportunity that lays in my power of informing you that I
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Rifleman Friedrich Lindau, 2nd Light Battalion KGL
Extract from Gareth Glover’s Waterloo Archive 2 Towards evening we marched through a field of high corn that we trampled
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Lieutenant Colonel G. von Muller, 2nd Line Battalion King’s German Legion
Extract from Gareth Glover’s Waterloo Archive Vol. 2 The 2nd Line Battalion was part of the division of Lieutenant
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An Unknown Sergeant of the Scots Greys
Extract From Waterloo Archive Volume 1 By Gareth Glover Brussels 25 June 1815 Dear wife, I am happy through the help of God
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Captain Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Foot Guards
Extract From A Young Gentleman at War By Gareth Glover Brussels 21st June 1815 On Thursday the 15th I left Grammont to come
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