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| Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of |
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| 1797–1868, British general. In the Crimean War he led the disastrous cavalry charge at Balaklava (1854) that Tennyson immortalized in The Charge of the Light Brigade. The charge was made on a misunderstood order, and the brigade was destroyed. Quarrels with his officers showed him a vain and contentious man. The cardigan sweater was named for him. | 1 | | See biography by P. Compton (1972). | 2 |
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