Caesar Bacon was twenty-four years old, a major in the 23rd Light Dragoons. He was the son of John Joseph Bacon, one of Douglas's foremost merchants in the pre-Revestment era — the man whose shipping ledger recorded the voyages of the brig Caesar to Naples and Gothenburg and the West Indies. The ledger was the record of the commercial world the Revestment had destroyed. The son fought in the war that followed the destruction. Bacon was wounded twice — at Quatre-Bras and again at Waterloo. His uniform survives at Manx National Heritage: the oldest known Napoleonic light cavalry uniform in the British Isles. It sits alongside Quilliam's naval uniform — the pressed fisherman and the merchant's son, Trafalgar and Waterloo, the two poles of Manx military service.