Emile Jean Horace Vernet (1789 – 1863)-
Battle of FontenoyThe Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745, was a major engagement of the War of the Austrian Succession, fought between the forces of the Pragmatic Allies – comprising mainly Dutch, British, and Hanoverian troops under the command of the Duke of Cumberland – and a French army under Maurice de Saxe, commander of King Louis XV’s forces in the in the Low Countries.
There is no finer reserve than six battalions of Wild Geese!
Marshal Saxe