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Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of

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Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of, 1797–1868, British general. In the Crimean War he led the disastrous cavalry charge at Balaklava Balaklava (bələklä`və), section of the city of Sevastopol , in S Ukraine, on the Crimean peninsula.
..... Click the link for more information.  (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.

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See biography by P. Compton (1972).



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