One of my all time favorite lines!

I think it was meant to convey the overall feel of the famous painting capturing the glory of the charge in that moment-but we're brought back to the grisly reality of warfare.

Поляков у Наполеона было много

I am and I will always be with the Highlanders BUT sorry, after some 4 hours, the 1st Foot Guards did the job, along with the 52nd of the Line. But the 1st Foot Guards, hence "The Grenadier Guards", did the job against la Garde!

Young Guard were *pretty much* conscripts Middle Guard, I'm highly sure weren't as experienced as Black Watch ⚰️

Actually, that charge broke a French Infantry assault, but British cavalry of the time was notorious for getting over excited and tiring horses and men....that's why Posonby and co. got slaughtered.

the battle of Waterloo was mainly for the Brits to hold their positions and waiting for the Prussian army in the north east. the victory was, that the french had to take out the Brits on a favorable position for these Brits, explicit the 3 farmhouses were a massiveproblem to break the british lines. this cavalry attack ended the first infantry attack on one of these houses with the support of artillery fire, that got disturbed for hours. the house fell only at the next infantry charge (after the deadly cav. charge of the french, who nearly succeeded to destroy the British positions, but were not planed or supported by Napoleon and not able to get enough infantry support because of these farmhouses) the lost of one of these 3 strongholds didn't matter, because the Prussians came and bend the right side of that last probably successful infantry attack of Napoleons army. something historians in the UK often forgot, the Prussians realized the critical situation, faked a retreat to the 1/3 of Napoleon army and rushed with astonishing speed to Waterloo. the "lose" of Ligny was a strategical retreat by Blüchner, after he stooped the french army with the British corp at Quatre bass, because the french army outflanked him. a french corp, that was ordered to envelope the Prussian army was called back by the fiery resistance of the English corp, so that Blüchner's position was never truly in danger. in some sense the victory of Waterloo was heavily influenced and summarized by the skirmishes of Hougoumont. we speak about a fight over the right side stronghold, that would have made it possible for Napoleon to attack the right side of Wellington. Napoleon originally planed to take this stronghold, to make Wellington reorganize his right flank defenses, so that his attacks on the center would hit with greater impact, the stronghold was never lost in the whole battle and both generals were heavily fixated on taking/holding the point, so that the battle became hindered by it (something good for the Brits). Most of the strongholds were garrisoned and defended by the british-german troops of "Carl von Alten", who was the problematic defender of Quatre Bass too. but to be fair, around 12.000 British troops were at some point in this one stronghold/farm and the french attacked it with ~18.000 troops. so around 1/4 of the battle was about this ONE DAMN FARM.

The charge is also suicidal

only one 't' in Scots.

The Union and Household brigades completely rode over D'erlons infantry division, routing it. Its been described as the one of the most effective cavalry charges in history.But its difficult to film realistically - half a tonne of man and horse riding through a bunch of packed fleeing infantry tends to leave a mushy trail. Good in warfare, not so good if you want to reuse the actors..

Look at the rats run