Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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Battle of Waterloo is in 1800-1850 Act of Union, Trafalgar and Waterloo.
On 18th June 1815 the Battle of Waterloo was fought.
Beaumont Hotham 3rd Baron Hotham [aged 20] was present.
Charles Augustus Fitzroy [aged 19] was wounded.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward Irby [aged 31] fought.
Henry William Paget 1st Marquess Anglesey [aged 47] led the charge of the British heavy cavalry against Comte d'Erlon's column which checked and in part routed the French Army. He was hit by one of the last cannon shots of the day necessitating the amputation of this leg during the Battle of Quatre Bras.
Fletcher Norton 3rd Baron Grantley [aged 16] fought and was wounded.
Charles Francis Rowley Lascelles fought.
Edward Kerrison 1st Baronet [aged 38] commanded his Regiment.
George Orlando Gunning [aged 18] was killed whilst serving as a Lieutenant in the 10th Hussars.
On 19th June 1815 Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Gordon [aged 29] died having had his leg amputated the previous day.
Charles Henry Farrington 2nd Baronet [aged 20] fought.
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Between 1810 and 1814 Trevor Wheler 9th Baronet [aged 17] served in the Peninsular Wars. He was present at the Battle of Waterloo.
On 18th June 1815 Frederick Howard [aged 29] was killed during the Battle of Waterloo. He was buried at Castle Howard Mausoleum.
On 18th June 1815 Henry Lascelles 3rd Earl Harewood [aged 18] fought at the Battle of Waterloo.
On 18th June 1815 Major-General William Ponsonby [aged 42] was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.
On 18th June 1815 Edward Hawkins Cheney [aged 36] fought at the Battle of Waterloo.
On 18th June 1815 Algernon Frederick Greville [aged 16] fought at Battle of Waterloo.
On 18th June 1815 Major Norman William Ramsay [aged 33] was killed in action at the Battle of Waterloo. Monument at St Michal's Church, Inveresk [Map].
Major Norman William Ramsay: In 1782 he was born.
On 18th June 1815, at the Battle of Waterloo, Charles Ewart [aged 46] captured the Regimental Eagle of the 45e Régiment de Ligne. One of the most prized honours of the Scots Greys and, in commemoration of this, their cap badge shows the Eagle. The Eagle is now in Edinburgh Castle Museum. It is one of two Regimental Eagles captured during the Waterloo Campaign.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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After 18th January 1867. Melbourne Cemetery, Derbyshire [Map]. Grave of Ensign Henry Edward Gooch of the Coldstream Guards, one of four men responsble for the pivotal closing of the gate at Hougomont Chateau during the Battle of Waterloo.
1881. Elizabeth Thompson Lady Butler [aged 34]. "Scotland Forever!" A depiction of the start of the charge of the Royal Scots Greys, a British heavy cavalry regiment that charged with other British heavy cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.