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  • Thumbnail for William Staveley
    William Staveley (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    and Battle of Badajoz and many other minor actions). At the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, Staveley was present as a captain in the Royal Staff Corps, afterwards...
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    Alexander George Woodford (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    battalion of the Coldstream Guards at the Battle of Quatre Bras, the Battle of Waterloo and the storming of Cambrai. He went on to become lieutenant governor...
    13 KB (1,302 words) - 02:02, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Gardiner (British Army officer)
    Robert Gardiner (British Army officer) (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    army on the retreat" then on the 18th he commanded his troop at the Battle of Waterloo. He became Principal Equerry to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld...
    7 KB (481 words) - 15:41, 2 May 2024
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    William Maynard Gomm (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    Hundred Days he took part in both the Battle of Quatre Bras and the Battle of Waterloo. He went on to be Commander of the troops in Jamaica and in that role...
    14 KB (1,344 words) - 20:33, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet
    Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    south of France." Returning to Europe he was a brigade major at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and afterwards rewarded as Assistant Quartermaster-General...
    16 KB (1,809 words) - 13:10, 29 April 2024
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    Frederick Adam (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    (17 June 1781 – 17 August 1853) was a Scottish major-general at the Battle of Waterloo, in command of the 3rd (Light) Brigade. He was the fourth son of William...
    8 KB (628 words) - 21:20, 30 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby
    Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    attached to Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur's light cavalry brigade. At the Battle of Waterloo, the 12th and 16th Light Dragoons were told to charge down the slope...
    17 KB (1,604 words) - 05:47, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
    FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    Wellington's staff at the Battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815 and at the Battle of Waterloo two days later where he had to have his right arm amputated (and then...
    21 KB (1,934 words) - 01:32, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jérôme Bonaparte
    Jérôme Bonaparte (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte (born Girolamo Buonaparte; 15 November 1784 – 24 June 1860) was the youngest brother of Napoleon I and reigned as Jerome Napoleon...
    29 KB (2,959 words) - 12:39, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sir William Verner, 1st Baronet
    Sir William Verner, 1st Baronet (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    British soldier who served in the Napoleonic wars, was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo and resigned as a colonel. He served as a politician, including 36...
    15 KB (1,157 words) - 01:13, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexander Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun
    Alexander Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    Grenadier Guards) in the Orchard at Hougomont on the morning of the Battle of Waterloo. During the battle he had four horses shot from underneath him. "Towards...
    7 KB (456 words) - 00:39, 1 June 2024
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    Frederick Love (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    Battle of Bussaco during the Peninsular War. He was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and saved Bristol during the riots of 1831. He was appointed...
    5 KB (244 words) - 13:18, 30 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for James Hamilton Stanhope
    James Hamilton Stanhope (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    British Army officer who fought in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo. He was a Member of Parliament for Buckingham, 1817–1818, Fowey, 1818–1819...
    8 KB (911 words) - 16:37, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Rowan
    William Rowan (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    in the Peninsular War and then the Hundred Days, fighting at the Battle of Waterloo and taking part in an important charge led by Sir John Colborne against...
    13 KB (1,258 words) - 01:57, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Bowater
    Edward Bowater (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    his men in the Battle of Quatre Bras. He was wounded again in the Battle of Waterloo in June. In 1826, Bowater was promoted to colonel and in 1837 to major-general...
    6 KB (619 words) - 03:34, 2 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Amédée Despans-Cubières
    Amédée Despans-Cubières (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    Wagram Battle of Borodino Hundred Days Battle of Quatre-Bras (WIA) Battle of Waterloo (WIA) Spanish expedition Morea expedition Awards Légion d'honneur...
    11 KB (1,326 words) - 13:53, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hugh Halkett
    Hugh Halkett (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    He captured a Danish standard at the action of Sehestedt. At the Battle of Waterloo, Halkett commanded four battalions of Hanoverian landwehr (militia)...
    6 KB (657 words) - 23:01, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joseph Muter
    Joseph Muter (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    fought in the Peninsular War and led the Inniskilling Dragoons at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. In 1816, following the inheritance of the Kirkside...
    8 KB (903 words) - 23:15, 5 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Alexander Gordon (British Army officer, born 1786)
    Alexander Gordon (British Army officer, born 1786) (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    was a Scottish officer in the British Army who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo. His correspondence was collated and published early in the early...
    8 KB (983 words) - 23:44, 31 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for James Macdonell (British Army officer)
    James Macdonell (British Army officer) (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    command of the infantry defending the Hougoumont farmhouse at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, where he fought with great distinction, including leading...
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