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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.
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Lord Uxbridge's leg. Lord Uxbridge portrayed by Henry Edridge in 1808, before the loss of his leg. Lord Uxbridge's leg was shattered, probably by a piece of case shot, at the Battle of Waterloo and removed by a surgeon.
Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet Caroline Paget. Henry Bayly-Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (18 June 1744 – 13 March 1812), known as Henry Bayly until 1769 and as Lord Paget between 1769 and 1784, was a British peer.
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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.
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, más conocido en la historia militar como Lord Uxbridge, es famoso por la pérdida de su pierna en la batalla de Waterloo. En aquel momento, tenía bajo su mando unos 13000 jinetes y algunas piezas de artillería, y en el transcurso de la batalla combatió al frente de alguna carga de caballería.
Another monument, that no longer exists, belonged to General Henry Paget, Lord Uxbridge. He led a series of cavalry charges at the battle, but was wounded in the right leg by one of the last cannon shots of the day. Uxbridge was taken back to his headquarters, a farmhouse in the village of Waterloo, where surgeons amputated the limb.
