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Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K.C.B. commanding the Royal horse artillery in the army under Wellington. Written during the peninsular and Waterloo campaigns
Sir Augustus Simon Frazer (1776–1835), 1859
Named on the page for Battle of Waterloo.
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18 June 1815
Battle of Waterloo
PREFACE.
Artillery of the army. On assuming this com- mand, the high reputation which Sir Augustus Frazer enjoyed as an Artillery officer, combined with his firmness of character, prevailed on the Duke of Wellington, who was at first not favour- able to the exchange, to permit him to substitute 9*pounders for 6 -pounders in the troops of Horse Artillery serving with the army. To this ex- change, which preceded the battle of Waterloo, may justly be ascribed much of the success of that memorable day, in the far heavier loss which the case-shot of the 9-pounders, stationed in front of the British line, inflicted upon the enemy advancing to the attack, and in the consequent saving of life to the allied troops by whom the attack was repulsed. The advantage of such a substitution will not be doubted in the present day, when the importance of the employment of heavier field ordnance than was then customary, has become a matter of universal recognition. A lively nar- rative of the subsequent events of the Waterloo campaign, together with the march to Paris, and the surrender and occupation of that Capital, will be found in the Letters from p. 562 to the close of the volume.
WATERLOO CAMPAIGN.
WATERLOO CAMPAIGN.
THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN.
THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN.
WATERLOO CAMPAIGN.
WATERLOO CAMPAIGN.
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