1st Royal Dragoons Size:A4 300 yards north of the

300 yards north of the Chateau of Hougoumont

Ponsonby was seriously wounded in the melee but survived

the oldest Infantry Regiment of the Line in the British Army

Near Troutbeck

1st Royal Dragoons Size:A4 300 yards north of theThe Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) was a mounted infantry and later a heavy cavalry regiment of the British Army. The regiment took part in the charge of the Union Brigade under command of Major General William Ponsonby at the Battle of Waterloo. Captain Alexander Kennedy Clark, an officer in the regiment, captured the French Imperial Eagle of the 105th Line Infantry Regiment during the battle. The regiment was formed in 1661 as the Tangier Horse. It