The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-04
The SCOTS GRAYS.
Regiment with n Fame That Is Word
Wide and MerIted.

A Regiment With a Fame That Is Word
Wide and MerIted.
Second to None" is the proud motto of
the gallant and famous regiment-the
| Second Dragon guard, or Royal Scots
Grays." 1t is a happily chosen motto, for
the fame of the regiment is world wide.
Its brilliant achievements on the field OF
battle during two centuries; its striking
and historic name; its grand and impos-
ing uniform-have made the Royal Scots
Grays, as an individual corps, there is no
gainsaying, the most widely known and
familiar of all the regiments of the British
army.
Since the regiment was raised In the
reign of Charles III. the Second dragons
have borne themselves we'll in many a ia
nous field, but want of space forb.ds us
to note the exploits until earth shaking"
Waterloo came on the glory roll of the
gallant Grays. Here, with the English
Royals" and the Irish "Inniskillings,"
they formed the famous "Union Brigade"
which made the never-to- be-forgotten
charge immortalzed in the well-known
picture of the Eight for the Standard"
That widely know picture shows a man of
the Grays, Sergeant Ewart, capturing the
eagle of a very famous French corps, the
"Forty-fifth of the Line" Sergeant Ewart
himself has told the story in a letter TO his
father.
He relates: ut was the first charge,
about IL o'clock, took the eagle from
the enemy. He and / mad a hard contest
for it. He thrust for my groin. parted
II off and cut him through the head, after
which l was attacked by one of their
lancers, who threw his lance at me. but
missed the mark by my throwing il off by
my sword at my right side; then l cut
him from the chin upward, which went
through his teeth. Next l was attacked
by a footl soldier, who, after firing at me,
charged me with his bayonet; but he very
soon lost the combat, for parted it and
cut him down through the head, so that
finished the contest for the eagle.
took the eagle into Brussels midst the
acclamations of thousands of spectators
who saw it," The standard was in
scribed "Austerlitz, Eylau, Friedland,
Jena, Wagram," and the memory of the
brave Sergeant Ewart's exploit is COM
memorated by the eagle worn as a special
badge by the regiment.
Later on this same day of Waterloo oc-
Cured the stirring incident of which Lady
Butter has made one of her most spirited
pictures. Tho Ninety-second Gordon
Hiehlanders, reduced to 200 men. were
charging with the bayonet a French
1000 strong, when the Grays rode
up alongside them, and with the High
landers clinging to their stirrup feathers,
with one general shout of Scotland for
ever !" in one commingled body of horse
and foot, the two regiments tumbled the
huge column of Frenchmen to pieces.
In our own times the Grays have proved
their mettle by their conduct at Balak-
lava. On that occasion-again with their
old warshout of Scotland forever!'-
they charged, at the head of Scarlett's
heavy brigade, and rode through a dense
of 5000 cavalry. The Gray's very
latest tour of war service was in 1875,
when, with Lord Wolseloy's camel corps,
they made the desert march and fought at
Abu Klea.-Scottish American.