Captain Norman Ramsay, leading Royal Horse Artillery charge, Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, 5 May 1811
Illustration after William Barnes Wollen (1857–1936) from British Battles on Land and Sea published 1915. Info from wikisource: At Fuentes d'Onoro (5 May) the British cavalry on the right wing was driven back by the French, which was in much greater strength, and I troop, or part of it, was cut off. It was supposed that the guns were lost, but soon a commotion was observed among the French cavalry; ‘an English shout pealed high and clear, the mass was rent asunder, and Norman Ramsay burst forth, sword in hand, at the head of his battery, his horses breathing fire, stretched like greyhounds along the plain, the guns bounded behind them like things of no weight, and the mounted gunners followed close, with heads bent low and pointed weapons in desperate career’ (Napier).
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