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Auction: 24002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 24

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Sahagun, Orthes, Toulouse (W. Creed, 15th Light Dragns), a couple of light contact marks, otherwise very fine

Provenance:
Spink, 1900 & March 1992.

W. Creed was present for the Battle of Sahagun on 21 December 1808 and likely participated in the battle's famous charge with his Regiment. The 15th Light Dragoons charged the French cavalry over frozen ground and successfully broke the French forces, taking many enemy prisoners at little cost to their own men. Captain Alexander Gordon recalls his experience of the charge in his book The Journal of a Cavalry Officer in the Corunna Campaign 1808-1809:

'...we came upon them, shouting: "Emsdorff and victory!" The shock was terrible; horses and men were overthrown, and a shriek of terror, intermixed with oaths, groans, and prayers for mercy, issued from the whole extent of their front.'

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Sold for
£1,300

Starting price
£600