TO
MAJOR-GENERAL LORD GEORGE PAGET, C.B.
Inspector-General of Cavalry,
SON OF THE DISTINGUISHED HORSEMAN AND HERO WHO COMMANDED THE CAVALRY AT WATERLOO, AND HIMSELF A LEADER AMONG THE “IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED,”
THIS BOOK IS BY PERMISSION INSCRIBED,
IN TRIBUTE TO HIS SOLDIERLY QUALITIES, AND TO HIS CONSIDERATION FOR THE NOBLE ANIMAL WHICH HAS CARRIED THE BRITISH CAVALRY THROUGH SO MANY DANGERS TO SO MANY TRIUMPHS,
BY HIS LORDSHIP’S OBEDIENT SERVANT,
“MAGENTA.”