'The Decisive Charge of the Life Guards at Waterloo', 1815

Steel engraving by William Bromley, after Luke Clennell, printed by Dixon and Son, published by John Britton, under the direction of a committee including the Earl of Bridgewater, 1 Mar 1821.

Both the 1st and 2nd Life Guards were part of Lord Somerset's Household Brigade during the Waterloo campaign and took part in the famous charge of the British Heavy Cavalry against Marshal D'Erlon's infantry corps before being subjected to a severe mauling by French lancers and cuirassiers.