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| | King's German Legion @nline -> Waterloo 1815 (6) |
 | | The battalion Salzgitter of Halkett’s brigade, made a gallant charge with the bayonet in the wood of Hougoumont on the right of the legion battalion, while the battalion Osnabrück, leaving the farm on its right, advanced under the immediate guidance of colonel Halkett, and attacked and broke a square of the enemy’s imperial guard. |
 | | Colonel Halkett’s brigade consisted of new raised troops, the greater part of whom were then, for the first time, in presence of an enemy, and they became exposed to a destructive fire from the brigade of general Cambronne, which formed the extreme left of the French final attack. |
 | | Halkett’s horse now received a ball, and fell, and on disengaging himself from the animal, he found, to his dismay, that the French general was coolly walking back to his own troops! |
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