Lord Uxbridge's leg was shattered, probably by a piece of case shot, at the Battle of Waterloo and removed by a surgeon.[1][2] The amputated right limb became a tourist attraction in the village of Waterloo, Belgium, where it had been removed and interred.[3]
- ^ Leaves from a Soldier's Notebook, in Colborn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal for 1847, Part II (London, H. Hurst, 1847) p. 543
- ^ Anglesey, ‘'Paget, Henry William, first marquess of Anglesey (1768–1854)’', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 10 Oct 2008
- ^ Material on which this article is based can be found in the BBC History Magazine, vol. 3, no. 6, June 2002.