James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan

1797–1868

James Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan, was a British cavalry officer notorious for aristocratic privilege and command disputes. During the Crimean War he led the Light Brigade in its disastrous charge at Balaclava, survived and later defended his conduct amid public controversy.

George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman at the Charge places James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan within a narrative shaped by empire, conquest and resistance, crime, espionage and covert power, and court politics and dynastic power. A. W. Boardman’s The Last of the Light Brigade places James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan within a narrative shaped by crime, espionage and covert power, military command and battlefield decision-making, and family, marriage and personal loyalty.

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The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2

The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…

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