Who is Your Favorite Flamboyant Cavalryman?

John Le Marchant. Anyone who can stop the British cavalry charging at everything and instead use them to such effect as he did at Salamanca has got to be worth a look
 
Bulwer-Lytton remarked of Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby
"The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, bold—the Rupert of Debate."

When someone used these words to Winston Churchill to refer to a contemporary Parliamentarian, Churchill replied "Ah, yes, his charge is irresistible, but his camp always ends up taken by the enemy."

to be fair,, the question wasn't who was the BEST cavalryman, it was who is your favorite flamboyant Cavalryman

the best are probably Sheridan during the US Civil War especially in the pursuit of Lee after Five Forks, and Alexander the Great, who had a battle winning weapon in his cavalry without even having stirrups!

Grierson was also pretty damned good, as was Stuart and Napoleon had a number of effective cavalry commanders (not so much Ney however)
 
Sir Percy Wyndham? (who sneaks on to my India list as a Commander of the Burmese Army)
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James Skinner?
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William Raikes Hodson
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Sam Browne
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For my own list there's a few, but at the top is Alexander Roberts Dunn:

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Notorious womanizer, interesting facial hair, cut down six Russians and survived the Charge of the Light Brigade unscathed, won the VC, and fought around the world before dying a mysterious death in the Abyssinian campaign in 1868.

Murat, obviously.

Sheridan because who doesn't love Sheridan's ride?

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