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18 de jun. de 2015 · Rare letters found in a council's archives have shed light on a Staffordshire army officer who famously lost his leg at the Battle of Waterloo, archivists say. Lord Uxbridge, whose family seat was ...
Monument to Lord Henry Pagett in St John the Baptist's Church, Hillingdon. Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge PC (13 January 1663 – 30 August 1743), of Beaudesert, Staffordshire, and West Drayton, Middlesex, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 until 1712 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Burton as one of Harley's ...
13 de out. de 2022 · Lord Uxbridge’s wooden leg at Plas Newydd. Photo: National Trust Images. Lord Uxbridge lived up to the age of 86, finally dying in 1854, thirty-nine years after his injury at Waterloo. One of the artificial legs worn by Uxbridge is now preserved at Uxbridge’s National Trust-owned family home Plas Newydd in Anglesey.
Earl of Uxbridge’s Stirrups. Made from brass, these ornately decorated stirrups were fashioned for Henry Paget, Lord Uxbridge, after the Battle of Waterloo. Uxbridge’s leg was hit by shrapnel at Waterloo and had to be amputated. These stirrups have been modified so that they can lock on to an artificial leg, allowing Uxbridge to continue ...
Another monument, that no longer exists, belonged to General Henry Paget, Lord Uxbridge. He led a series of cavalry charges at the battle, but was wounded in the right leg by one of the last cannon shots of the day. Uxbridge was taken back to his headquarters, a farmhouse in the village of Waterloo, where surgeons amputated the limb.
20 de jun. de 2020 · 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, Thomas Lawrence. The first we hear of Uxbridge taking action, is in the rear-guard after the battle of Quatre Bras. This difficult defensive move was carried out effectively by Uxbridge and the cavalry who managed to hold off the French pursuit and allow the Allied army to retreat to Waterloo and to form up there in good order.
7 de fev. de 2015 · Une chronique de Yves Vander Cruysen. Plusieurs officiers supérieurs ont été grièvement blessés à Waterloo. Comme Lord Uxbridge, dont l’amputation de la jambe fait aussi partie de la légende waterlootoise. HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, deuxième comte d’Uxbridge, commandait, à Waterloo, la cavalerie britannique. C’était un brillant ...
