He joined the 23rd Light Dragoons, a cavalry regiment ... Dr. O'Keeffe, who is writing a book about British military music ...

Convinced that the British line was weakening, he led his cavalry forward ... The first time in the whole history of the Napoleonic wars the Guard was seen to falter and then eventually fall ...

It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have ... Objects like these would have made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers.