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Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey KG, GCB, GCH, PC (17 May 1768 – 29 April 1854), styled Lord Paget between 1784 and 1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a member of parliament for Carnarvon and then for Milborne Port, he took part in the Flanders ...
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5 de may. de 2019 · One man who espoused this attitude was Henry Paget, the Earl of Uxbridge and Commander of the British Cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. During the battle, Uxbridge’s right leg was badly wounded by a French cannonball and had to be amputated – which was done without anesthetic.
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Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, later the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, commanded 13,000 Allied cavalry and 44 guns of the horse artillery at the Battle of Waterloo, on 18 June 1815. At about 2:30 pm, at a critical stage in the battle, he led a charge of the 2,000 heavy cavalry of the Household Brigade and the Union Brigade to throw ...
Anglesey (1768-1854) wears the uniform of Colonel of the 7th (or the Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars), which, as Henry, Lord Paget, he first commanded in the Low Countries in 1799. He became Colonel of the Regiment in 1801.
Henry Paget (1768-1854), 2nd Earl of Uxbridge and 1st Marquess of Anglesey. 1836. RCIN 401453. The Marquess of Anglesey was a hero of the Napoleonic Wars and distinguished himself at the Battle of Waterloo, where he lost a leg – an injury Shee has chosen not to reveal.
Anglesey wears the uniform of Colonel of the 7th (or the Queen’s Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars), which, as Henry, Lord Paget, he first commanded in the Low Countries in 1799. He became Colonel of the Regiment in 1801.
Lord Uxbridge's false leg After an impressive military career Paget, as Lord Uxbridge, was Britain's second-in-command at Waterloo . An exceptional cavalry leader, it was his unleashing of the British heavy cavalry that smashed Napoleon Bonaparte 's first major attack of the battle.
