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On the morning of the 18th of June 1815, when battle was imminent, the men of the 2nd Light Battalion of the Kings German Legion were sent to take up a defensive position in and about the farm complex of La Haye Sainte, there to await the inevitable bloody engagement against Imperial French forces. The ensuing battle would go down in history as the final and pivotal major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, this battle would be forever known as the Battle of Waterloo.

At 13:00 in the afternoon the attack on the Allied lines commenced with the French Grande Battery opening fire for some time before d'Erlon's Corps was ordered to advance across the field. At La Haye Sainte two columns of French skirmishers soon managed to surround allied defenders in the farm. The desperate fighting had begun and more Germans, this time the Hanoverian Battalion, were ordered forward to help the defense of the farm, but they were intercepted and cut down by French Cavalry, their few survivors made their way on into the farm. At 14:00 a charge, now famously called 'charge of the Scotts Greys' relieved for a time the hard pressed German defenders of the farm.

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