. Battles of the nineteenth century . As they passed the Q2nd, many of the High-landers caught hold of their stirrup-leathers andcharged down with them ; the very groundseemed trembling under the iron hoofs ; Mar-cognet and Alix were broken and trampled, andin three minutes more than 2,000 prisonerswere wending their disconsolate way to the rear. Those beautiful grey horses ! said Napoleon,as he watched the charge. Did he see that struggle round the Eagle ofhis 45th, I wonder—that famous Battle for theStandard w^hich Ansdell has painted so well ? What says Sergeant Ewart, the hero of theincide
. Battles of the nineteenth century . As they passed the Q2nd, many of the High-landers caught hold of their stirrup-leathers andcharged down with them ; the very groundseemed trembling under the iron hoofs ; Mar-cognet and Alix were broken and trampled, andin three minutes more than 2,000 prisonerswere wending their disconsolate way to the rear. Those beautiful grey horses ! said Napoleon,as he watched the charge. Did he see that struggle round the Eagle ofhis 45th, I wonder—that famous Battle for theStandard w^hich Ansdell has painted so well ? What says Sergeant Ewart, the hero of theincident ? It was in the charge I took theEagle from the enemy. He and I had a hardcontest for it. He made a thrust at my groin ;I parried it off, and cut him down through thehead. After this a lancer came at me ; I threwthe lance off by my right side, and cut himthrough the chin and upwards through theteeth. Next a foot-soldier fired at me, and thencharged me with his bayonet, which I also hadthe good luck to parr^, and then I cut him. Sergeant Evvart me Eagle at Waterloo c/. fj).{Fiom a ranting by W. B. IVoihn, \ -ilP^ WATERLOO. ^ down through the head. Thus ended thecontest. Captain Clarke and Corporal Styles, of theRoyals, took an Eagle from the 105th betweenthem—a glorious gilded thing, embroideredwith tjie names of Jena, Eylau, Eckmiihl, Essling,and Wagram—the gallant captain losing the tipof his nose in the struggle. A man of the Inniskillings named Penfoldclaimed to have taken that colour ; but his storyis vague, and I incline to think that a blue silkcamp-colour of the 105th, now at Abbotsford,was the one that Penfold seized and afterwardslost in the fray. Sir William Ponsonby led the charge on arestive bay hack, and was killed ; while some ofthe Greys got as far as the Great Battery, dis-abling many of the guns, and getting slain inthe end. Part of the 28th lost its head, and charged withthe brigade ; Lieutenant Deares of that regimentbeing taken pri
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