[19] One day, on the Marine Parade at Woolwich, a battalion coming up in close column at the double march, Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, who stood near me, remarked, “That puts me in mind of your troop coming up at Waterloo, when you _saved_ the Brunswickers.” Until this moment I never knew that our having done so had been remarked by anybody; but he assured me it was known to the whole army; and yet the Duke not only withheld that praise which was our due, but refused me the brevet rank of major; and, more than that, actually deprived me of that troop given to me by Lord Mulgrave, the then Master-General, _for_ that action, as recommended by my commanding officer, Sir G. Adams Wood. That the Duke was not ignorant of their danger I have from Captain Baynes, our Brigade-Major, who told me that after Sir Augustus Frazer had been sent for us, his Grace exhibited considerable anxiety for our coming up; and that when he saw us crossing the fields at a gallop, and in so compact a body, he actually cried out, “Ah! that’s the way I like to see horse-artillery move.” Another proof. [20] The following extract, from a related account of a conscript, translated from the French and published by Murray, is so true and exact as to need no comment:--“Through the smoke I saw the English gunners abandon their pieces, all but six guns stationed under the road, and almost immediately our cuirassiers were upon the squares, whose fire was drawn in zig-zags. Now, I thought, those gunners would be cut to pieces; but no, the devils kept firing with grape, which mowed them down like grass.” It is pleasant, after all, to find we were observed and spoken of as we deserved, though not by those who ought to have done it. I may here mention that Sir James Shaw Kennedy in his book is, I think, mistaken in saying that the Brunswickers were saved by Major Bull’s and Captain Mercer’s batteries, since after the usual interval on the right of the Brunswick square occurred one of English and then Major Bull’s battery, and the front of the French attacking column was only equal to our own. [21] These grenadiers à cheval were very fine troops, clothed in blue uniforms without facings, cuffs, or collars. Broad, very broad buff belts, and huge muff caps, made them appear gigantic fellows. [22] Gourgand says:--“Cette division de deux mille grenadiers à cheval, et dragons tous gens d’élite, s’étaient engagés sur le plateau, sans l’ordre de l’Empereur,” &c. &c.--P. 88., ed. London. He speaks of the cavalry of reserve of the Guard. Could these be the people? [23] “The field was so much covered with blood, that it appeared as if it had been flooded with it,” &c.--Simpson’s ‘Paris after Waterloo,’ &c., p. 21.