British Hussars

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Oil on canvas, by Peter Edward Stroehling (1768-1826), 1826.
Lieutenant General Henry William Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge and Marquess of Anglesey, 1815
Anglesey (1768-1854) wears the uniform of Colonel of the 7th (or the Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars), which, as Henry, Lord Paget, he first commanded in the Low Countries in 1799. He became Colonel of the Regiment in 1801.
He commanded the cavalry of Sir John Moore's army in Spain and Portugal.
In 1815, he as the 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, he was given command of the British cavalry and horse artillery in Wellington's army.