The History of the 2nd Dragoons: "Royal Scots Greys"

by Edward Almack

Charles Ewart, Serjeant in the SCOTS GREYS.
CARRYING OFF THE EAGLE BELONGING TO
ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED DIVISIONS
of the
FRENCH INFANTRY.
at the
BATTLE OF WATERLOO:
Which he captured in a CHARGE made by his REGIMENT about the middle of the Action.

From a Contemporary Print.

The Grave of Ewart, who captured the Eagle at Waterloo.

From a small volume lettered outside:—

"Extracts from a journal kept during the Waterloo campaign, by Lieutenant Archibald James Hamilton, of the 2nd or Royal North British Dragoons, presented to the Officers of the Royal Scots Greys by Major John G. C. Hamilton, M.P., of Dalzell, Lanarkshire, on the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, 1881."

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"This is a portion of the Journal of my father, Archibald James Hamilton, who was a Lieutenant in the Scots Greys during the Waterloo campaign."

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