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2nd Battalion, 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot Major Arthur Rowley Heyland: 47 officers, 748 men 3 officers, 30 men 11 officers, 159 men 0 officers, 18 men 2nd Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Absent from Battle Lieutenant Colonel Henry Milling: 32 officers, 407 men 4th Hanoverian Brigade
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon I was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition .
The battalion subsequently landed in Holland and fought at the Battle of Quatre Bras [31] and the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. [32] At Waterloo the 2nd Battalion, 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot and the 2nd Battalion, 30th Regiment of Foot formed a defensive square to defend their ground against successive French attacks. [33]
As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 82nd was linked with the 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot, and assigned to district no. 14 at Peninsula Barracks, Warrington. [35]
The 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1717 in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) to form the Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) in 1881.
The 2nd Battalion, 73rd Regiment of Foot and the 2nd Battalion, 30th Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815, Joseph Cartwright. The 2nd Battalion remained in England until May 1813 when it was shipped to Swedish Pomerania and fought at the Battle of the Göhrde in September 1813 [14] and the Battle of Merxem in January 1814. [15]
30th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782. 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1881 [59] 1689 Raised 8 March 1689 as Viscount Castleton's Regiment of Foot, later (1694) Thomas Saunderson's Regiment of Foot. Disbanded 1698. Reraised 12 February 1702 as Thomas Saunderson's Regiment of Marines [59] 1881: 1st Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment
A map of the Battle of Waterloo with contours. The Waterloo Battlefield is located in the municipalities of Braine-l'Alleud and Lasne and Waterloo, [1] about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Brussels, and about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the town of Waterloo. The ordering of the places in the list is north to south and west to east.