2-689-225 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

French lancer of the Imperial Guard, Napoleonic Wars, c1815. Engraving produced in Paris. In 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo this unit formed part of General Lefebvre-Desnouettes Guard Light Cavalry Division, which took part in Marshal Ney's massed cavalry attack on the British lines. They had also been engaged at the Battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June as scouts ahead of Marshal Ney's main body.