Captain Samuel Bolton's Battery of the Royal Artillery. One of the least experienced units in the British Army at Waterloo, it stood its ground in the thick of the fighting and was instrumental in repelling the final French attack on that section of the Allied line.

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Manning the barricade and the steep banks of the Nivelles road, the 51st Foot held the furthest most westerly point of Wellington's line at Waterloo. These Peninsula veterans were perfectly suited to this light infantry work - skirmishing and keeping in check any probing French movements west of Hougoumont. This episode looks at some of the extraordinary experiences of the day as well as what became of these men in the decades that followed.

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The ranks of the Royal Welch Fusiliers at Waterloo contained veterans from Egypt, Corunna, Albuera, Badajoz, and Orthes, as well as numerous other actions from Martinique in the Caribbean to Toulouse in the south of France.

Probably due to their experience and reputation, the Regiment was positioned in a more central role than the other two units of Mitchell's Brigade, and suffered disproportionate casualties among its officers.

This episode looks at the role of the Regiment in 1815 and what became of its men in the decades that followed.

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