Lieutenant Carique Lewin
Does anyone have any genealogical connection to or information about Lieutenant Carique Lewin who was wounded at Waterloo on June 18, 1815 fighting in the the 71st Regiment (Lord MacLeod's Highlanders)
Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle
After spending the night in the rain, soldiers in Wellington's Anglo-Allied Army dried their guns and looked across the muddy fields. The French Army was preparing to attack. Everyone on both sides expected it to be a day of brutal combat-except for one man. The Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, told his generals, "This affair will be no more serious than eating one's breakfast." He expected to defeat the Allies near Waterloo and enter Brussels in triumph by nightfall. Starting before noon, the battle raged fiercely for five hours. Then the Prussian Army arrived to aid Wellington. Five hours later, the French Army was broken and retreated in disorder. Napoleon had "met his Waterloo."
Nearly 190,000 soldiers fought in one of the most decisive battles in the history of Europe on June 18, 1815, in which Lieutenant Carique Lewin was slightly wounded.
I think my great-grandfather Carique William Clutterbuck, b. 1863 in Ireland, was named after Carique Lewin. I wonder if there is some genealogical connection, possibly in Ireland.
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