Lord Uxbridge's leg

Kafar Lord Uxbridge ta karye, tabbas ta hanyar harbin harsashi, a yakin Waterloo kuma wani likitan fida ya cire shi. An yanke hannun dama ya zama wurin yawon bude ido a ƙauyen Waterloo, Belgium, inda aka cire shi aka binne shi.

Waterloo

1st Marquess na Anglesey, ya umurci mayaƙan dawakai 13,000 da bindigogi 44 na mayaƙan doki a Yaƙin Waterloo, ranar 18 ga Yunin shekarar 1815. Da misalin ƙarfe 2:30 na rana, a wani mataki mai mahimmanci a yaƙin, ya jagoranci rundunar sojan doki 2,000 na sojan doki na baya-bayan nan na Brigade Brigade. D'Erlon na Faransanci na I Corps, waɗanda ke barazanar mayar da baya ga Picton's da yawa fiye da 5th Division, tare da wasu sojojin Faransa 15,000 suna ci gaba da 3,000 na Birtaniya da Dutch-Belgian sojojin. Zargin ya yi nasarar kawar da sojojin Faransa cikin rudani, amma Uxbridge ya kasa hada kan sojojinsa, wadanda suka ci gaba da bin su, aka datse su ta hanyar kai hari ta hanyar kai hari na sojojin Faransa. Uxbridge ya shafe sauran yaƙin yana jagorantar jerin tuhume-tuhume daga tsarin sojan doki na Biritaniya, kuma yana da dawakai takwas ko tara da aka harbe daga ƙarƙashinsa.

Ɗaya daga cikin harbin bindiga na karshe da aka harba a wannan ranar ya bugi kafarsa ta dama, wanda hakan ya sanya aka yanke ta a saman gwiwa[4]. Bisa ga wani labari, yana kusa da Duke na Wellington lokacin da aka buga masa ƙafa, ya ce, "Wallahi, yallabai, na rasa ƙafata!", Wellington ya amsa da "Wallahi, yallabai, don haka kana da!".

Mafi ingantaccen juzu'in wannan musayar zai iya fitowa daga littafin tarihin JW Croker, abokin Wellington, wanda aka rubuta a ranar 8 ga Disamba 1818, inda ya ba da labarin tattaunawa da Horace Seymour, mutumin da ya ɗauki Uxbridge da aka raunata daga fagen fama. Seymour ya tuna cewa lokacin da aka bugi Uxbridge ya yi kuka "Na samu a ƙarshe," Duke na Wellington ya amsa da "A'a? Shin, kun, Wallahi?"

Yankewa

Bayan da aka ji rauni, Lord Uxbridge an kai shi hedkwatarsa ​​a ƙauyen Waterloo, wani gida mallakar M. Hyacinthe Joseph-Marie Paris, Maison Tremblant, wanda har yanzu yana cikin gidansa a shekarar 214, Chaussée de Bruxelles.. A can, Dokta John Hume ya yanke kafarsa da ta lalace a tsakiyar cinya, tare da taimakon likitoci James Powell na Sashen Kiwon Lafiya na Ordnance, da James Callander na Hussar na 7.

Lord Uxbridge, mai gaskiya ga yanayinsa, ya kasance mai jujjuyawa da haɗawa. A cewar mai taimaka masa a sansanin, Thomas Wildman, a lokacin da ake yankewa Paget murmushi ya ce, "Na yi dogon gudu. Na kasance kyakkyawa a cikin wadannan shekaru arba'in da bakwai, kuma ba zai yi kyau a yanke samarin ba." A cewar wani labari nasa kawai ta hanyar tsarin shine, "Wƙaƙen sun bayyana a fili."

Bisa ga asusun Sir Hussey Vivian da Henry Curling ya rubuta a 1847:

Bayan da likitan fida ya cire kafar Marquis na Anglesey, Sir Hussey Vivian ya shigo gidan da aka yi wa tiyatar. "Ah, Vivian!" Mai martaba ya ji rauni ya ce, "Ina so ka yi mani alheri. Wasu abokaina a nan suna ganin watakila na ajiye wannan kafa. Kawai ka je ka jefar da idonka a kanta, ka gaya mani ra'ayinka." "Na tafi, bisa ga haka," in ji Sir Hussey, "kuma, na ɗauki sashin da aka lakad da shi, na duba shi a hankali, kuma ya zuwa yanzu kamar yadda na iya gane, ya lalace gaba ɗaya don aiki. Wani ɗan ƙaramin inabi mai tsatsa ya bi ta kuma ya farfasa ƙasusuwan gaba ɗaya.Don haka sai na koma wurin Marquis, na ce masa zai iya sanya hankalinsa ya huta, saboda a ganina, kafarsa ta fi kyau.”

Wani labarin kuma ya ƙara da cewa: “Wane ne ba zai rasa kafa ba don irin wannan nasarar?”[8] Ita wannan zagon da aka yanke masa kafar yana hannun gidan tarihi na sojoji na kasa.

An ba Uxbridge fansho na shekara-shekara na £ 1,200 a matsayin diyya don asarar ƙafarsa, wanda ya ƙi.. Kwanaki biyar bayan yaƙin, Yarima mai jiran gado ya ƙirƙira shi Marquess na Anglesey kuma ya nada shi Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Bath.