Alexander Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun
- Alexander Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun
Lieutenant General Alexander George Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun GCH, KCB, was a Scottish representative peer and a British Army general who fought in the Napoleonic and Second Anglo-Chinese Wars
In 1815 Lord Saltoun commanded the Light Companies of the First Regiment of Guards (later the Grenadier Guards) in the Orchard at Hougomont on the morning of the Battle of Waterloo; and it Saltoun who, later in the day, first noticed the Imperial Guard emerge from the hollow where they had been hiding all day, and drew the Duke of Wellington's attention to them.
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