 One small boy recalls watching infantry march 6-abreast through the town in lines reaching back from the pier gates to Nethercourt Toll Bar.While Kenneth Beacham Martin (later deputy Harbour Master) remembers the Household Cavalry and Royal Dragoons descending from their barracks on West Cliff to embark on 34 vessels heading for Ostend in the spring of 1815 to join Wellington and to eventually fight in the battle of Waterloo.In 1821, George IV acceded to the thrones of Britain, Ireland and Hanover.