General Lord Charles Henry Somerset Manners, KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (24 October 1780 – 25 May 1855) was a British soldier and nobleman, the second son of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland

Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland

Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland KG, PC was a British politician and nobleman, the eldest legitimate son of John Manners, Marquess of Granby...

 and Lady Mary Somerset.

He was lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel

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 of the 3rd (King's Own) Regiment of Dragoons

3rd The King's Own Hussars

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 in 1815, during the Waterloo

Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...

 campaign. After a brief appointment to the colonelcy of the 11th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, he was transferred to the colonelcy of the 3rd, which he commanded until his death in 1855.

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