'Fight for the Standard - Sergeant Ewart capturing the Eagle of the French 45th Regiment at Waterloo', 1815

Engraving after the oil painting by Richard Ansdell RA,1848.

During the Battle of Waterloo (1815) Sergeant Charles Ewart (1769-1846), 2nd (Royal North British) Dragoons, captured the Eagle of the French 45eme Régiment. As the Scots Greys advanced he cut down the four escorts accompanying the standard bearer and bore the eagle away. Ewart was commissioned as a reward for his gallantry. Something of a veteran by the time of Waterloo, he had originally enlisted in 1789 and served in many campaigns; on one occasion being taken prisoner.