article_snippet.sent: Famed for losing his leg: Lord Uxbrige commanded 13,000 Allied cavalry and 44 guns of horse artillery at the Battle of Waterloo .
article_snippet.sent: Jon Baddeley, managing director at Bonhams Knightsbridge, said: 'the Battle of Waterloo Waterloo was one of the most significant military encounters of the 19th century and the outcome had a profound effect on the future of Europe so not surprisingly there was a lot of public interest is this sale and the bidding from collectors was fierce.'
article_snippet.sent: Lord Uxbrige commanded 13,000 Allied cavalry and 44 guns of horse artillery at the Battle of WaterlooWaterloo.
article_snippet.sent: At around 2:30pm, at a crucial stage in the Battle of Waterloo, he led a charge of the 2,000 heavy cavalry of the Household Brigade and the Union Brigade to push back the French.
article_snippet.sent: a charge of the 2,000 heavy cavalry of the Household Brigade and the Union Brigade succeeded in sweeping the French infantry away but Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was unable to rally Lord Lieutenant of Ireland troops, who ran on in pursuit and were cut up by counter-attacking French cavalry.
article_snippet.sent: Lord Lieutenant of Ireland spent the rest of the battle leading a series of charges by British light cavalry formations, and had eight or nine horses shot from under Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
article_snippet.sent: After being wounded, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was transported to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland headquarters in the village of Waterloo.
article_snippet.sent: Bloody encounter: A painting of the Battle of Waterloo by William Holmes Sullivan .
article_snippet.sent: In recognition of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland gallantry, the Prince Regent created Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Marquess of Anglesey and made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath five days after the Battle of Waterloo.
article_snippet.sent: On the one day of fighting at the Battle of Waterloo Waterloo there were close to 55,000 either killed, wounded, or missing in action from both sides.
article_snippet.sent: The staggering density of the injured men - around 2,291 per mile on the front line - compared with 234 over the same area on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 - meant that a huge number were left to bleed to death on the battlefield.