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Text Box: The charges of the cavalry were in appearance quite formidable. I shall never forget the strange noise our bullets made against the breastplates of the cuirassiers like the noise of a violent hailstorm beating upon panes of glass. Ensign Gronow (1st Foot Guards)

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Text Box: Women at Waterloo Photograph by Lynn Holmes of the Napoleonic Association A number of women, mostly soldiers wives, were present at the battle. The majority were located “behind the lines”, but several were in the thick of the action. One of these was Elizabeth, pregnant wife of Private Peter McMullen, who, although herself wounded in the leg, survived the terrible carnage in the square of the 27th Regiment. Although only 5 years old at the time, an old lady named Elizabeth Watkins still remembered some 88 years later how she helped her mother tear up lint for bandages on the battlefield. Unbeknown to her at the time, her father, a British soldier, lay dead upon the field. The strangest Waterloo story concerns the discovery of a “most beautiful young lady” who lay dead upon the field of battle dressed in the uniform of an officer of the French Hussars. Her body was found on the day after the battle by two British officers. The location of her body confirmed that she must have charged with the French cavalry. Who this unfortunate lady was and why she was there remains a mystery to this day.