Coloured engraving of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815

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'French Cuirassiers in the Battle of Waterloo Charged and Defeated by the Highlanders and Scotch Greys', published by E. Orme, 4 June 1816.

The main focus of the print is a Scots soldier using his bayonet to attack a mounted Frenchman, while to the extreme right a Highland soldier attempts to help a fallen comrade.

There were 6,070 officers and men of Scottish regiments present at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, of a total of 67,655 commanded by the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon led almost 72,000 men. The British lost 15,000 killed and wounded, and the French 25,000.

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• Online ID: 000-000-100-264-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Thistle at War
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1950.873
• Date: 18 June 1815
  4 June 1816
  Published 1816
  
• Material: Paper
  Print / engraving
  
• Dimensions: 250 mm H x 325 mm W
  
• What: Print / engraving
  
• Subject: Prints
  
• Who: E. Orme (publisher)
  French Cuirassiers (Non-British forces, inc. Imperial and Colonial)
  
• Where:
• Event: Battle of Waterloo
  
• Description: French Cuirassiers - Coloured engraving of the regiment at Waterloo, published by E. Orme, 4 June 1816.
  
• References:
  • McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh, NMS, 1997 
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