The Horse (Life) Guards at the Battle of Waterloo, one of the officers having killed a French colonel cuts off his epaulette in triumph
Aquatint drawn by W Heath, engraved by M Dubourg, published and sold June 4th 1817.
From ‘Historic, Military and Naval anecdotes, of personal valour, bravery and particular incidents which occurred to the armies of Great Britain, 1803-15, and her allies, in the last long-contested war terminating with the Battle of Waterloo’, published by Edward Orme, 1819.
Associated with the Battle of Waterloo (1815), Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).
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