Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon was a Marshal of France and a soldier in the Grande Armée during the Napoleonic Wars. He notably commanded the I Corps of the Army of the North at the Battle of Wat
Portrait by Charles-Philippe Larivière, 1843
Thomas Picton
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Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. He fought in the Napoleonic Wars and died at Waterloo. According to the historian Alessandro Barbero, Picton
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon
…of Waterloo it was his Corps in column formation which attacked the Allied centre right from La Haye Sainte to Papelotte at 13:30 and was stopped by Picton's Peninsular War veterans, and then attacked in the flanks by the British heavy cavalry. He retreated with the rest of the French army and fought in…
Portrait of Thomas Picton by Sir William Beechey, c. 1815
Picton's birthplace in Hill Street, Haverfordwest, marked with a commemorative blue plaque. The house later became the Dragon Hotel.
Luisa Calderón being tortured, as illustrated in one of the many prints at the time
Picton painted by Martin Archer Shee