James Jenkins
The martial achievements of Great Britain and her allies: from 1799 to 1815
London: printed for J. Jenkins, by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh, [1814–15]
Harley-Mason.a.23, [plate 51]

This view of the left wing of Allied army at Waterloo shows the death of Sir Thomas Picton at around two o’clock, just after he had ordered a charge against the attacking column of the Comte d’Erlon’s I Corps. The letterpress printed opposite the plate explains: ‘After the failure of the enemy’s attempts upon Hougoumont… it became the object of Buonaparte to turn the left wing of the British army; to effect which the most desperate efforts were made. Sir T. Picton sustained this long and sanguinary contest with the most unshaken fortitude, and defeated every attempt of the enemy, by bringing the 32d, 33d, 44th, and 3d battalion Royal Scots, to the charge, till he received a musket-ball in his temple, which instantaneously deprived him of life.… On the right is the 28th regiment under Sir P. Belson, who, in repelling the charges of the French cuirassiers, had four horses shot under him.’

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