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_o...

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[dog75k]

Even the boy you replied to doesn't match your stupidity. England was a 2nd rate power before the union. Spain & France ran the globe

It was a Scotsman, James Watt who developed the steam engine into the workhorse of the industrial revolution that allowed Britain to overtake the rest of Europe. It was a Scotsman, Adam Smith who invented capatilism giving British merchants rule over the worlds economy

You and your kind give the English a reputation they do not deserve. Fuck you. Rule Britannia!

[Kito Logan]

Btw I am Scottish and for keeping the union cause for over three hundred years we fought together and died together and endured to comments like that dishonour each scot who died protecting both our countries. The 4th Battilion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland held of the germans at Dunkirk to give everyone enough time and we were put into the worst battles because we knew how to win them. I'd like you to remember right now you never beat us in war might of hit us hard but it was never enough.

[dog75k]

That's a pretty warped view of the battle. It wasn't a war between Scotland and England or even Scotland and the rest of Britain. It was a British civil war with the Steward line (with most of their support in the Scottish Highlands) attempting to regain the British throne from the Hanoverian one which was supported by parliament, most of England and the Scottish lowlands. Most of the government troops Charlie fought were Scots and he was welcomed into Manchester by English Jacobites.

[dog75k]

Not nearly the largest, not even close. The French owned (or at least had huge influence amongst the native Americans) pretty much all of Eastern Canada along with all the land East and some lands West of the Mississippi. The Spanish owned all of central America as well as California, Florida, pretty much the entire south of what is now the US. England owned only the regions east of the Appalachian mountains and a few outposts along Hudson Bay.

I would agree that she was always powerful though.

[HerbiieIsBest]

1) The haka was originally a war chant used by the NEw Zealand islanders to scare their enemy before they went into battle

2) Most New Zealanders are descended from the British

3) The Scots are often described as a "War-like" peoples. They usually have a higher proportion of people in the military than the English.

Please, stop being ignorant about even your own damn history.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

We do the Haka before rugby matches. However, rugby is a sport, not killing. New Zealanders are a peaceful people. The English think we are cowards, as we don't live just to enjoy murdering Frenchmen. I always thought of the Scots like us also - a friendly people.

[MyFaceBurns]

I agree with the point of your post, but England has always been a significant power. England had the largest colonies in North America before the Union.

[HerbiieIsBest]

Culloden anyone?

300 British Casualties, 2,000 Scottish Rebel Casualties.

Yeeees.

[HerbiieIsBest]

What's the Hakka you guys do at the start of every Rugby match?

Yes, a War Chant.

Humans fight. It's what we do. There has never been a point in history where the world was at peace.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

O well. I am a New Zealander. We do not like war and killing. We are like the Swiss in that respect. I am surprised that the Scots are like that.

I am disgusted at the English. They don't seem to care about human life. Awful realy.

[HerbiieIsBest]

"Sons of the hounds! Come hither and get flesh!"

A Scottish warcry that basically means "Come and eat us or we'll eat you!"

[phill davies]

He did, He was General Thomas Picton from Pembrokeshire, South Wales. Misplaced his uniform, hence went into battle in civvies. Commanded the 5th infantry division at Waterloo and killed there. Memorial to him in Camarthan. Apparently not a nice fella.