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This is the first of a series of British Cavalry figures of the Napoleonic period.
2nd Royal North British Dragoons the Scots Greys 1815
T54-574 Officer
T54-575 Trumpeter
T54-576 Trooper
T54-577 Trooper
T54-578 Officer in full dress
Price each: painted, £42.50 GBP; kit £6.95 GBP
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The Scots Greys had the motto "Second to none." It referred to their seniority in the British Army and their fighting prowess. Their official motto, however, was the royal Scottish motto Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (No one provokes me with impunity). Wearing bearskins, they were distinguished as the only heavy cavalry regiment not to wear helmets.
"Ces terribles chevaux gris! Comme il travaillent!"
(Those terrible grey horses, how they strive!) - Napoleon
At approximately 1:30 pm, the second phase of the Battle of Waterloo opened. Napoleon launched D'Erlon's corps against the allied centre left. After being stopped by Picton's Peninsular War veterans, D'Erlon's troops came under attack from the side by the heavy cavalry commanded by Earl of Uxbridge including General Sir William Ponsonby's Scots Greys.
The shocked ranks of the French columns surrendered in their thousands. During the charge Sergeant Ewart, of the Greys, captured the eagle of the French 45th Ligne. The Greys charged too far and, having spiked some of the French cannon, came under counter-attack from enemy cavalry. Ponsonby, who had chosen to ride one of his less expensive mounts, was ridden down and killed by enemy lancers. The Scots Greys' casualties included: 102 killed; 97 wounded; and the loss of 228 of the 416 horses that started the charge.
This engagement also gave the Scots Greys their cap badge, the eagle itself. The eagle is displayed in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards museum in Edinburgh Castle.
The charge of the Scots Greys in the picture Scotland Forever! by Lady Butler in Leeds City Art Gallery famously depicts the event and inspired the slow-motion shots of the charge in the film Waterloo directed by Sergei Bondarchuk in 1970.
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