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Battle of Balaclava. General Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget KCB (16 March 1818 – 30 June 1880) was a British soldier during the Crimean War who took part in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade. He later became a Whig politician.
- Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (grandfather)
Henry William Paget, primer marqués de Anglesey KG, GCB, GCH, PC (17 de mayo de 1768 - 29 de abril de 1854), llamado Lord Paget entre 1784 y 1812 y conocido como el Earl de Uxbridge entre 1812 y 1815, fue un oficial del ejército británico y político.
He was awarded the K.C.B. in 1871. Paget represented Beaumaris in the whig interest from 1847 to 1857. He died very unexpectedly at his residence in Farm Street, Mayfair, London, 30 June 1880. Paget's Crimean Journals were printed for private circulation in 1875 after which he revised them, and they were published by his son in 1881.
Brevet-Colonel Lord George Paget notoriously led it into the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava (1854) smoking a cheroot and in 1874 became its full colonel. It converted into a hussar regiment in 1861. For almost 60 years after Crimea, the regiment alternated between garrison duty in England, Ireland and India.
Accompanying him was Colonel Lord George Paget, who was in temporary command of the Light Brigade given that Cardigan routinely slept on Raglan’s luxury yacht Dryadanchored off Balaclava. At sunrise the party observed a pair of flags flying above Redoubt 1.
By Eric Niderost. When Lt. Col. Lord George Paget rose early in the morning of October 25, 1854, he had no inkling of, as he later put it, “the day’s work in store for us.”. Paget was part of an Anglo-French expeditionary force now besieging the Russian naval base at Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula.
11 de abr. de 2024 · Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget. (1818-1880), General. Sitter in 3 portraits. The son of the Waterloo hero, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Paget was second in command at the disastrous charge of the light brigade, and one of the last to escape the famous ' Valley of Death'.
