Gordon Highlanders, Quatre Bras 1815, Painted, C52b

The Gordon Highlanders were one of Wellington's finest regiments having served with him on many occasions. In June 1815, Napoleon, realising that his days were numbered, launched a surpise attack on the British and Prussians who were billeted around Brussels. Wellington and Blucher, who were about 40 miles apart, urgently moved to link up and position their armies between the advancing French and Brussels. They were just short of doing so when the French Advance Guard, moving up the Brussels road met the British at Quatre Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The ensuing battles were desperate affairs with commanders on all sides rushing troops into action. The Gordon Highlanders, in the British centre, held all day. Repeatedly forming line to fire on advancing French infantry, and squares to repel cavalry. The rye fields, ready for harvest, were bloody and trampled. By evening the battle had been inconclusive and both the British and French had fought themselves to a standstill. In the night Blucher gave the orders for the Prussians, who had suffered terribly to withdraw and Wellington, with his left flank exposed, gave orders for his army to fall back 10 or so miles to a small ridge he had noted to the south of Waterloo.

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