Model Soldiers

The Greys moved straight to their front, through the ranks of the Gordons. The head of the French Division was now only 20 yards away  and the Greys simply walked into the 1^st and 45th Infantry of the Line. There was no gallop and no charge.

Comments on the Charge of the Royal Scots Greys at Waterloo by W. A. Thorburn, late curator at the National War Museum of Scotland 

The troops varied in strength at various times, but the normal strength was about 70 to 80 men. However, at Waterloo the Union Brigade formed by the Greys, Royal Dragoons and Inniskilling Dragoons with a paper strength of 1150, only mustered 900 sabers altogether, the Royal Dragoons and Inniskillings, like the Greys, being represented by 6 troops each. 

Up to the return of Napoleon from Elba, the Royal North British Dragoons Scots Greys had 8 troops, but in 1815 this was increased to 10 troops, the total strength of officers and men in the 10 troops being 946.
 

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