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Lord Uxbridge's leg
Lord Uxbridge's leg was shattered by a cannon shot at the Battle of Waterloo and removed by a surgeon.〔''Leaves from a Soldier's Notebook'', in ''Colborn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal'' for 1847, Part II (London, H. Hurst, 1847) p. 543〕〔Anglesey, ‘'Paget , Henry William, first marquess of Anglesey (1768–1854)’', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 (accessed 10 Oct 2008 )〕 The amputated limb became a tourist attraction in the village of Waterloo in Belgium, where it had been removed and interred.〔Material on which this article is based can be found in the ''(BBC History Magazine )'', vol. 3, no. 6, June 2002.〕
==Waterloo==
Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, later the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, commanded 13,000 Allied cavalry and 44 guns of horse artillery at the Battle of Waterloo. At about 2:30 pm, at a critical stage in the battle, he led a charge of the 2,000 heavy cavalry of the Household Brigade and the Union Brigade to throw back the columns of D'Erlon's French I Corps, who were threatening to push back Picton's severely outnumbered 5th Division, with some 15,000 French infantry advancing on 3,000 British. The charge succeeded in sweeping the French infantry away in disorder, but Uxbridge was unable to rally his troops, who ran on in pursuit and were cut up by counter-attacking French cavalry. Uxbridge spent the rest of the battle leading a series of charges by British light cavalry formations, and had eight or nine horses shot from under him.〔
One of the last cannon shots fired on 18 June 1815 hit his right leg, necessitating its amputation above the knee.〔Contemporaneous sources: ( For example: Edward Baines, ''History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War, in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815: Comprehending the Civil History of Great Britain and France, During that Period'', Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. (p. 468 ) &
George Jones, John Booth, ''The Battle of Waterloo: With Those of Ligny and Quatre Bras, Described by Eye-witnesses and by the Series of Official Accounts Published by Authority. ...'', Published by L. Booth, 1852. (p. 403 )) say right leg; some more recent sources say the left.〕 According to anecdote, he was close to the Duke of Wellington when his leg was hit, and exclaimed, "By God, sir, I've lost my leg!", to which Wellington replied "By God, sir, so you have!"〔Anglesey, ‘Paget , Henry William, first marquess of Anglesey (1768–1854)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 (accessed 13 Nov 2007 )〕〔Reagan, Geoffrey. Military Anecdotes (1992) p. 34 Guinness Publishing ISBN 0-85112-519-0〕
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