He Held the Gate for 9 Hours. History Never Wrote His Name. | Iron Volley Ep. 01

June 18, 1815. The farmhouse at Hougoumont, Belgium. For nine hours, a garrison of British Guards held four walls against twelve separate French assaults while the Battle of Waterloo was decided on the ridge above them. Wellington called it the hinge of the entire battle. Sergeant Francis Dodd, 1st Foot Guards, appears in the muster roll. He was there. He survived. The record gives us nothing else. This is what the record cannot see, the hours inside the walls, the arithmetic of survival, the gate that held, and the man who held it. Iron Volley tells the stories of real soldiers whose names history preserved and whose inner lives it did not. Every figure is documented. Every battle is verified. The cost is ours to imagine.