British Army during the Napoleonic Wars for battle service in the Peninsular War. The cross also saw the first use of Medal bars. Following the battle a Waterloo Medal was issued to all soldiers who participated in that engagement. Decades later the Military General Service Medal was awarded to all ranks for service in campaigns during the 1793-1814 period. At the start of the French Revolutionary Wars, the "heavy" cavalry were equivalent to dragoons or "medium" cavalry in the French and other armies. They consisted of three regiments of Household Cavalry, seven regiments of Dragoon Guards and six regiments of Dragoons. The Dragoon Guards had been
Battle of Jobourg was one final naval engagement of the long Napoleonic Wars during the Hundred Days in 1815, when the ship of the line HMS "Rivoli" intercepted and defeated the Napoleonic frigate "Melpomène" on 30 April. "Hebrus"'s battle with "Etoile" was however the final encounter of dozens between individual frigates in the almost continuous 23-years of warfare between Britain and France. Battle of Jobourg The Battle of Jobourg was a minor naval engagement between British and French frigate squadrons during the last weeks of the War of the Sixth Coalition in the 22nd and penultimate year of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic