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This is how Colonel Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby of the Light Dragoons spent his day: having charged too far through the French infantry, both of his arms were disabled by sabre cuts in the mélée; then he fell off his horse and was speared in the back by a French lancer; a French skirmisher robbed him as he lay helpless; another used him as a barrier, firing over his body; finally, he was trampled by the advancing Prussian cavalry. Astonishingly, he survived to become Governor of Malta.