{"product_id":"one-leg-the-life-and-letters-of-henry-william-paget-first-marquess-of-angelesey-17681854-9780850525182","title":"One Leg: The Life and Letters of Henry William Paget : First Marquess of Angelesey 1768-1854","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne Leg: The Life and Letters of Henry William Paget : First Marquess of Angelesey 1768-1854\u003c\/strong\u003e by Marquess of Anglesey. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780850525182.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenry William Paget, first Marquess of Anglesey, was born more than twenty years before the French Revolution. Like his famous contemporary the Duke of Wellington, he became a legend during his lifetime. As a youth he was in one scrape after another; in his forties he figured in a celebrated elopement and duel which caused much scandal; but he is best known for his greatness as a cavalry leader. His brilliant timing of the charge of the heavies at Waterloo averted disaster in the first crisis of that battle. Having lost a leg by one of the last shots fired on that sanguinary day, he was later known as One-leg Paget.\nAnglesey was twice lord-lieutenant of Ireland. He was still in high office two years before his death at the age of 85.\nHis present biographer, the seventh Marquess of Anglesey, has made adroit use, in this reprinted edition, of his letters and other unpublished material in a narrative that is full of dramatic, humorous, and romantic incident.\nAmong the famous figures prominent in this absorbing story are the Prince Regent, Queen Victoria, Sir John Moore, Lord Melbourne, Daniel OConnell and, of course, the Iron Duke, with whom Anglesey was often at odds but of whom in old age he became a very close friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pen \u0026 Sword Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45788457467957,"sku":"ByrdShop_0850525187","price":333.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780850525182_30fb8456-0a20-4e34-b019-5f8c1bb9ffa3_44a2bd82-85c2-49bb-9da7-40116d4dff13_4419450c-d03b-44d2-a928-1f970821e454.jpg?v=1790493247","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/one-leg-the-life-and-letters-of-henry-william-paget-first-marquess-of-angelesey-17681854-9780850525182","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}