
Waterloo
Order
of Battle
The Anglo-Allied Army of 1815
Commanded by Lt-General Lord Henry
Paget, Earl of Uxbridge
ADCs: Captain Horace Seymour (60th Rifles)
Captain Wedderbun-Webster (9th Lt Dragoons)
1st Household Brigade: Major-General Lord Edward Somerset (1,416)
1st Rgmt of Life Guards (228) (Lt-Colonel Samuel Ferrion)
2nd Rgmt of Life Guards (231) (Lt-Colonel Hon Edward P Lygon)
The Rgmt of Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) (237) (Lt-Colonel Sir
Robert C Hill)
1st Rgmt of Dragoon Guards (530) (Lt-Colonel William Fuller)
2nd Union BReserve
Cavalry (Strength 11,800 men, 30 guns)
rigade: Major-General Hon Sir William Ponsonby (d.18th) (1,369)
ADC: Major De Lacy Evans
1st Rgmt of Dragoons (3) (394) (Lt-Colonel Arthur B Clifton)
2nd Rgmt of Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) (3) (391) (Lt-Colonel
James I Hamilton)
6th Rgmt of Dragoons (3) (396) (Lt-Colonel Joseph Muter)
3rd (Light) Brigade: Major-General Sir William B Dörnberg (1,485)
23rd Rgmt of Light Dragoons (Lt-Colonel the Earl of Portarlington)
1st Rgmt of Light Dragoons KGL (Lt-Colonel J Bülow)
2nd Rgmt of Light Dragoons KGL (Lt-Colonel C de Jonquieres)
4th (Light) Brigade: Major-General Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur (1,337)
11th Rgmt of Light Dragoons (Lt-Colonel James Wallace Sleigh)
12th Rgmt of Light Dragoons (Lt-Colonel Hon Frederick C Ponsonby)
16th Rgmt of Light Dragoons (Lt-Colonel James Hay)
5th (Light) Brigade: Major-General Sir Colquhoun Grant (1,495)
7th Rgmt of Hussars (Lt-Colonel Sir Edward Kerrison)
15th Rgmt of Hussars (Lt-Colonel Leighton C Dalrymple)
2nd Rgmt of Hussars KGL (Lt-Colonel Lingingen)
6th (Light) Brigade: Major-General Sir Hussey Vivian (1,615)
ADC: Captain Arthur Shakespear (10th
Hussars)
10th Rgmt of Hussars (Lt-Colonel George Quentin)
18th Rgmt of Hussars (Lt-Colonel Hon Henry Murray)
1st Rgmt of Hussars KGL (Lt-Colonel A Wissell)
7th (Light) Brigade: Colonel Sir F V Arentschildt (1,331)
13th Rgmt of Light Dragoons (Lt-Colonel Patrick Doherty)
3rd Rgmt of Hussars KGL (Lt-Colonel F L Meyer)
Reserve Horse Artillery: Lt-Colonel A MacDonald
Webber-Smith's Horse Battery RHA: 5 x 6pdr, 1 x 5.5" howitzer
(107)
(Lt-Colonel James W-Smith)
Gardiner's Horse Battery RHA: 5 x 6pdr, 1 x 5.5" howitzer (180)
(Lt-Colonel Sir Robert Gardiner)
Mercer's Horse Battery RHA: 5 x 9pdr, 1 x 5.5" howitzer (180)
(Captain Alexander Cavalié Mercer)
Bull's Horse Battery RHA: 6 x 5.5" howitzer (180)
(Major Bull)* *Credited with firing the first
Allied shot at Waterloo.
Ramsay's Horse Battery RHA: 5 x 9pdr, 1 x 5.5" howitzer (180)
(Major W N Ramsay, d.18th)
2nd Rocket Troop RHA: 5 x 6pdr, 1 section Congreve Rockets (181)
(Captain Edward C Whinyates)
Supplied by Mike Shakespeare