Edward Orme (1775–1848)
Historic, military, and naval anecdotes, of personal valour, bravery, and particular incidents which occurred to the armies of Great Britain and her allies, in the last long-contested war, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo…
London: Edward Orme, 1819
Harley-Mason.a.78, plate opposite p. 17

‘The Marquis of Anglesea Wounded’. Engraving by M. Dubourg after John Augustus Atkinson. Henry William Paget (1768–1854), Earl of Uxbridge and afterwards Marquess of Anglesey, was commander of the Allied cavalry at Waterloo. Late in the battle he was hit in the knee by a cannon shot while riding next to Wellington. The two men, whose relationship had been strained by Uxbridge’s elopement with Wellington’s sister-in-law, are supposed to have said: ‘By God, sir, I’ve lost my leg!’; ‘By God, sir, so you have!’ The leg was indeed amputated soon afterwards, and buried in a garden in Waterloo village.

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