The Battle of Waterloo: The British Squares Receiving the Charge of the French Cuirassiers The Battle of Waterloo: The British Squares Receiving the Charge of the French Cuirassiers The Battle of Waterloo: The British Squares Receiving the Charge of the French Cuirassiers is an 1874 oil painting by French artist Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux. It depicts a scene from the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, with squares of red-coated infantry from Sir Thomas Picton's British 5th Division to the left being charged by cavalrymen of the French 5th and 10th Cuirassiers in blue uniforms to the right. The main British unit is one of Highland infantry, with the colour party and a
Order of battle of the Waterloo Campaign Grolman, was Quartermaster General. Order of battle of the Waterloo Campaign This is the complete order of battle for the four major battles of the Waterloo Campaign. L'Armée du Nord under the command of Emperor Napoleon I.<br> "Major Général" (Chief of Staff): Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia.<br> Commander of artillery: General of Division Charles-Étienne-François Ruty.<br> Field commanders under the direct command of Emperor Napoleon: Combined British, Dutch and Hanoverian forces were under the supreme command of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. The Order of Battle included below reflects all units of the Anglo-allied Army including those that