Lieutenant-General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan was a British Army officer who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, leading its disastrous charge at the Battle of Balacl
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Deene Park, Northamptonshire—seat of the Brudenell family
c. 1841 portrait of Brudenell by Francis Grant
1894 painting of the Charge of the Light Brigade