Battle of Waterloo, 1815
Marquess of Anglesey: "By God, sir, I've lost my leg!"
Duke of Wellington: "By God, sir, so you have!"

While the words are most likely apocryphal, it is certainly true that the Marquess’ leg was shattered towards the end of the Battle of Waterloo. The site where the amputated leg was interred became a tourist attraction in Belgium, and the replacement leg still also attracts visitors, at the owner’s ancestral home in North Wales. 

The loss of the leg did not hold the Marquess back – indeed, if one was a Marquess, little holds one back. He was later a Field Marshall, a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and was made a Knight of the Garter.