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Sdog1981 t1_iryrpya wrote

The whole family got in on the act.

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"Uxbridge's close family lost several limbs in the service of the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars: his brother, Major-General Sir Edward Paget, lost his right arm in the crossing of the Douro during the Second Battle of Porto in 1809, and his daughter lost a hand tending her husband on a battlefield in Spain."

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1945BestYear OP t1_iryu1el wrote

I had been aware that female companions (be they wives, sweethearts, or lets say more 'transactional' forms of relationships) of soldiers had been an immutable part of military life in this era and indeed almost every era before it since the dawn of warfare, but finding out the daughter of an aristocrat in Regency Britain had a battlefield amputation still honestly shocked me. It's the sort of thing where unless you specifically heard about cases like this, if you saw it portrayed in a film you would think "There's no way this was real.". Jane Austen could've had a character like her in one of her novels, and it'd be entirely authentic.

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ghengilhar t1_is0uh9m wrote

Jeez. Who does this family think they are? The Skywalkers?

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