Waterloo

French Guard Artillery battery in action. " THE EMPERORS BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS" 12 pound cannons and howitzers on the flank pound the ridgeline at Mont St. Jean as members of the Guard infantry wait.

Metal figures from Frontline, Britains and Niena. Plastics are Armies in Plastic and Historex. Most of the cannon are AIP.  Buildings are Conte from the Warlord Village.

Old Guard Horse gunners and Line foot gunners adding to the din of shot and shell smothering the ridge.

Horse gunners are Italeri as well as the 6 pounders and Howitzer with 5 Frontline gunners in the mix.  Line Foot are AIP and Frontline.  Cannons, Britians and Frontline. 

1st Corps attacks next.

Wellington, "They are coming on in the same old style"
Picton,  " Then we shall meet them, in the same old style."

1st Corps attacks.  La Hay Sainte has been surrounded, Bourgeois Division has driven in the Allied skirmishers and crosses the hedges and sunken lane and is soon to be confronted by 32nd line and 79th Cameron Highlanders.
2 more Divisions should be on the right, Donzelots and Marcognet.

Marcognets Division will confront the 42nd Blackwatch and 92nd Gordon Highlanders.  After a brief but bloody firefight, in which the Highlanders unfortunately get the worst of it, the French are dealt a terrible blow by some terrifying men on gray horses.

Further to the right facing the allies. French Attack along the sunken lane.  Surprised by 3,000 muskets firing at a range of 40-60 yards, the French are recoiled.  The British charge and clear the lane but go no further.  The French reform and press the Scots very hard and a brief but terrible close range firefight ensues.  Both sides are disordered but the French have the advantage of superior numbers.
I wonder what happens next?

The French gain the crest of the ridge and are assailed by the Union Brigade.  The French, disordered after their fierce uphill battle, manage to fire some scattered volleys into the Dragoons before impact.  The Dragoons have started their charge from the reverse side of the ridge - uphill and will sweep the French from the crest, down the hill , across the hedge .The French infantry are for the most part broken.  The fleeing French infantry before them is too great a temptation for the Dragoons and they ride in amongst them merrily hacking and stabbing with their long straight swords.  This Division of French is "Walked over" by the Greys and it is here where Sgt Ewart captures the 45th Line eagle.

The British Heavy cav  loose all restraint and, with all control lost, continue across the field and into the French Grand Battery where disaster waits.