In his detailed letter of the 21st June 1815, Thomas Taylor provided a description of the cavalry encounters during the Battle of Waterloo on the 18th June, and the situation at the close of the action: 'Down went a party of lancers on a party of the 23rd Dragoons on our right; checked them; then came our right squadron on the lancers; drove them back;   then  came a body of heavy Dragoons on our right squadron; then our centre squadron on them; and away they went. Then we soon came on a square which the right squadron charged and, I hear, broke completely. I went with mine to the left of the square and Lord Robert was with us. We were among infantry; Imperial Guard; blue, with large fur caps, who were throwing down their arms and themselves and roaring "pardon", on their knees, many of them.' In addition to the letters the file contains extensive new genealogical information and details of Thomas Taylor’s military service. 

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