Elizabethan history on British cavalry rivalries…
locomotivehootenanny brilliance:
There are so many ways in which I could take this post. The angle I will take is that of telling you all the angles I could take.
ONE
This mustachioed gentleman inspired the cardigan! because he was a (briefly) celebrated wartime dandy.
TWO
This mustachioed gentleman (and nitwit) led the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. Betsy and I have considered starting an elite society called The Charge of the Light Brigade (also a Tennyson poem), even though, historically speaking, the Light Brigade, while meeting their militaristic objective, came out of the charge a little dull.
THREE
This mustachioed gentleman, along with his enemy, the Earl of Lucan, provoked many great insults from historians, contemporaries and their own mouths, which all of us can manipulate for our own use in the future.
- The melancholy truth was that his gorgeous head had nothing in it.
- Tell Lord Brudenell that he has already given me the satisfaction of having removed the most damned bad-tempered and extravagant bitch in the kingdom.
- [He is as] innocent as a horse.
- The incredible tightness of their cherry-coloured pants defies description.
- Lord Cardigan has as much brains as my boot.
- Dearest, she’s dead…let’s get married at once.
FOUR
This mustachioed gentleman was introduced to me in Great Rivals in History, which is well-worth purchasing, if only to view the pictures.