The famous Rifles, bookending Adam's Brigade at Waterloo, fought in the unfamiliar role of conventional line infantry, forming column, line, and square. This episode includes numerous first hand accounts, some of them previously unpublished, as well as new data, new statistics, and new stories!

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From Blaauwberg in South Africa, to Buenos Aires, and through the hard campaigns of the Peninsula, these were "The Glasgow Heroes", who formed part of Adam's Brigade at Waterloo. This episode traces who these men were and what became of them in the years that followed the Napoleonic Wars.

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Trained at Sir John Moore's Light Infantry camp at Shorncliffe, Kent, the 52nd formed part of the famous Light Division, central to Wellington's successes in the Peninsula War. At Waterloo the Regiment formed part of Adam's 3rd Brigade where it played an important roll on the right flank of the battlefield. This episode looks at the horror of their experience there, surprising insights into discipline in this crack force as part of the army of occupation following Waterloo, and what became of some of the men in the years after.

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