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
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."
Sir Percy Wyndham? (who sneaks on to my India list as a Commander of the Burmese Army)
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Sam Browne
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Sneaking spoilers from your TL in are we TKI?
Though in terms of flamboyant he probably takes the cake with the facial hair...
I am afraid that real life is stranger than fiction - he really did command the Burmese Army briefly...
http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=665
I have also just realised I have ISOT'd his dad at the head of the 20th Light Dragoons in my other TL!