The Battle of Waterloo - Charge of the British Heavy Cavalry

"At this crucial juncture, Uxbridge ordered his two brigades of British heavy cavalry, formed unseen behind the ridge, to charge in support of the hard-pressed infantry.

Continuing their attack, the squadrons on the left of the Household Brigade then destroyed Aulard's brigade. Despite attempts to recall them, however, they continued past La Haye Sainte and found themselves at the bottom of the hill on blown horses facing Schmitz's brigade formed in squares.

Napoleon promptly responded by ordering a counter-attack by the cuirassier brigades of Farine and Travers and Jaquinot's two lancer regiments in the I Corps light cavalry division. The result was very heavy losses for the British cavalry."

From the movie Waterloo.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066549/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo#Charge_of_the_British_heavy_c...

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[easy77146]

the British are the best

[TalonMercenary]

@dachicagoan 1 battle? Oh dear. You have absolutely no clue. Go and look at something MAJOR known as the "Peninsula War 1808 - 1814". Idiot

[TalonMercenary]

@manfred898 Yes, a greater impact, but it was the British army which drilled the Portugese into a very effective fighting force, and it was Wellington who built massive fortifications to defend Lisbon (Torres Vedras). Some Englishmen have a tendency to claim coalition victories yes, but our impact cannot be overlooked. Prussia seems to get an awful lot of kudos for "saving" Waterloo, when in fact they capitulated to Napoleon in just 2 weeks in 1806 (i think its 1806, maybe 1807)

[manfred898]

@eunoway

By subjugating peoples, yes, and you're proud of this?

[manfred898]

@englandareus

Oh lord.

[manfred898]

@TalonMercenary

Britains efforts along with the Portuguese and Spanish too. Their effort was somewhat greater than you'd see in an episode of Sharpe. The point is, the British, or English really, do have a habit of claiming victories solely as there own, I'd imagine many English don't even realise Waterloo was a multiple effort.

[TalonMercenary]

@manfred898 Thats why it was a coalition. Without Britain's effort in the Peninsular War, Napoleon would have taken over Portugal and the rest of Spain. He would not have been beaten in 1815

[manfred898]

@easy77146

As someone who holds a British passport, believe me, they're not ;)

[manfred898]

@TalonMercenary

Whilst the Russians were destroying the 'Grande Armee' ;)

[soulofthenorth]

The bagpipes were said to summon the evil spirits to the battle field, imagine knowing that and seeing a sea of red heading your way, I'd be running in the opposite direction...

[samthegreat4]

What a fail.. that charge was commenced much too soon in the battle.

[englandareus]

biggest empire in the world BIGGEST HEARTS