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Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of 1768 – 29 April 1854), styled Lord Paget between 1784 and

1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815,

was a British Army officer and politician.

After serving as a Member for Milborne Port,

he took part in the Flanders Campaign and then commanded the cavalry

for Sir John Moore's

army in Spain during the Peninsular War; his cavalry showed distinct superiority over

their French counterparts at the Battle of Sahagún and

at the Battle of Benavente, where

he defeated the elite chasseurs of the French Imperial Guard.

During the Hundred Days he led the charge of the

heavy cavalry against Comte d'Erlon's

column at the Battle of Waterloo. At the

end of the battle he lost part of one leg to a

cannonball. In later life he served twice as Master-General of the Ordnance and

twice as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

He was born Henry Bayley, the eldest son of Henry Bayley-Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge and his wife

Jane (née Champagné), daughter of the Very Reverend Arthur Champagné, Dean of Clonmacnoise, Ireland. His father assumed the surname Paget in 1770.

He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. Paget

entered parliament at the 1790 general election as

member for Carnarvon, a seat he held until the 1796 general election when

his brother Edward was elected unopposed in his

place. He then represented Milborne his

seat in 1804 by appointment as Steward of the Chiltern

Hundreds, and again from the 1806 election to January 1810, when he took the Chiltern

Hundreds again. At the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars,

Paget raised a regiment of Staffordshire volunteers and was given the temporary

rank 1793. As the 80th Regiment of Foot, the unit took part in the Flanders Campaign of 1794 under Paget's command. He was formally commissioned into the British Army as a lieutenant in the 7th Regiment of Foot on 14 April 1795 and received rapid promotion, first to captain in

the 23rd Regiment of Foot,

also on 14 April 1795, then to major in

the 65th Regiment of Foot, on 19 May 1795 and then to lieutenant-colonel in the 80th

Regiment of Foot on 30 May 1795. He transferred to the command of the 16th Light Dragoons on

15 June 1795. Promoted to colonel on 3 May 1796, he was given command of

the 7th Light Dragoons on

6 April 1797. He commanded a cavalry brigade at the Battle of Castricum in

October 1799 during the Anglo-Russian invasion of

Holland. Paget was promoted to major-general on 29 April 1802 and lieutenant-general on

25 April 1808. He commanded the cavalry for Sir John Moore's

army in Spain; his cavalry showed distinct superiority over their

French counterparts at the Battle of Sahagún in

December 1808, where his men captured two French lieutenant colonels and so

mauled the French chasseurs that they ceased to exist

as a viable regiment. He also commanded the cavalry at the Battle of Benavente later

in December 1808, where he defeated the elite chasseurs of the French Imperial Guard, and

then commanded the cavalry again during the Retreat to Corunna in January 1809. This was his

last service in the Peninsular War, because

his liaison with Lady Charlotte, the wife of Henry Wellesley,

afterwards Lord Cowley, made it impossible subsequently for him to brother. His only war service from 1809 to 1815 was in the

disastrous Walcheren expedition in

1809, during which he commanded an infantry division. In 1810 he was divorced and then married Lady

Charlotte, who had been divorced from her husband around the same time. He inherited the title of Earl of Uxbridge on his father's death in March 1812 and

was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of

the Bath on 4 January 1815. During the Hundred Days he was appointed cavalry commander in Belgium, under the still resentful eye of Wellington. He fought at the Battle of Quatre Bras on

16 June 1815 and at the Battle of Waterloo two

days later, when he led the spectacular charge of the British heavy cavalry

against Comte d'Erlon's

column which checked and in part routed the French Army. One of the last cannon

shots fired that day hit Paget in the right leg, necessitating

its amputation. According to anecdote, he was close to

Wellington when his leg was hit, and exclaimed, "By God, sir, I've lost my

leg!" — to which Wellington replied, "By God, sir, so you have!" According to his aide-de-camp, Thomas Wildman, during the amputation Paget smiled and said,

"I have had a pretty long run. I have been a beau these 47 years and it

would not be fair to cut the young men out any longer." While Paget had an articulated artificial limb fitted, his amputated leg meanwhile had a somewhat macabre

after-life as a tourist attraction in the village of Waterloo in Belgium, to which it had been removed and

where it was later interred. Paget was created Marquess of Anglesey on

4 July 1815. A 27-metre (89 ft) high monument to his heroism (designed

by Thomas Harrison) was

erected at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey, close to Paget's country retreat at Plas Newydd, in 1816.[23] He was also appointed a Knight of the Garter on

13 March 1818[24] and promoted to full general on 12 August 1819.