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...Lord Cardigan "was transported with fury. It was his impression that Nolan had been trying to take command of the Brigade," and throughout the remainder of the charge, Lord Cardigan thought about nothing but the punishment that he would order for this bumptious officer...
...Well." said Lord Cardigan, wheeling his horse, "here goes the last of the Brudenells...
Into the Russian Guns. "The Brigade advanced with beautiful precision. Lord Cardigan riding alone at their head . . . [in] the gorgeous uniform of the 9 Hussars . . . Instead of wearing his gold-laced pelisse dangling from his shoulders, he had put it on as a coat, and his figure . . . was outlined in a blaze of gold...
...Lord Cardigan had trotted a mere 50 yards when the Russian batteries opened fire. Simultaneously. Captain Nolan, the aide who had brought the fatal order, galloped frantically across the van of the advancing brigade, waving his sword. "Had he suddenly realized that his interpretation of the order had been wrong?" No one will ever know, for at that moment a Russian shell fragment tore open Captain Nolan's heart...
...Lord Cardigan never looked back. Picking a path between two Russian guns, he rode into the battery "steady as a church," and pushed straight on through a pall of smoke. Behind him, his saber-wielding troopers began to cut down the Russian gunners, but Lord Cardigan was too much of a peer to join in. It was "no part of a general's duty," he said later, "to fight the enemy among private soldiers." In a few moments, he was clear of the guns-and face-to-face, at a mere 20 yards, with the entire Russian cavalry...