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N135 - Scottish Infantry Sergeant - 1815

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Six battalions from Scottish infantry regiments are engaged in Waterloo, about 250 men. These battalions, Highland or Highlanders, are the 42, 71, 73, 78, 79 and 92. Only three (the 42, 79 and 92e) carry the famous kilt.
42nd Highlanders - The Royal Highland Regiment of Soccer
71st Highland Light Infantry now the Royal Highland Fusiliers
73rd Highlanders the Black Watch
79th Highlanders later the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, then the Queen's Own Highlanders and now the Highlanders
92nd Highlanders and the Highlanders
British general Picton, a veteran of the Spanish war, had his soldiers behind the counter slope by adopting Wellington's technique in Spain, and ordered his regiments of Scottish infantry and militiamen to rise suddenly. The Allied soldiers then directed a deluge of fire on the French, who, taken by surprise mounting the plateau in columns, could not respond to the shots and tried to re-form their lines. In front of this disorganized infantry, Wellington entrusted the commander of his corps of cavalry, Lord Uxbridge, to counter-attack the heavy cavalry brigades Somerset and Ponsonby. The Grays Scots of Somerset attack the heavy cavalry detachment of Milhaud's corps, charged with protecting the Quiot division; The heavy brigade Ponsonby attacks the 1st corps. The French, surprised in full deployment, are severely stricken and fall back in disorder, suffering heavy losses.
They resist in square the charges of cavalry of the French cuirassiers.