was shattered, probably by a piece of , at the Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815. Reported by Geoffrey Reagan, Military Anecdotes (1992), p. 34, and in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. A different version of this exchange comes from the diary of J. W. Croker, a friend of Wellington, written on 8 December 1818, in which he recounts a conversation with Horace Seymour, the man who carried the wounded Uxbridge from the battlefield. Seymour recalled that when Uxbridge was hit he cried out https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wounded_in_action