ABSTRACT
Back at the Horse Guards once more, the Duke found himself in familiar surroundings. There was his old aide, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, beavering away as Military Secretary where Wellington had left him fourteen years before. The soldiers, particularly those autocratic, high-strung brothers-in-law, Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan, may have been as troublesome and as difficult to manage as the Tory Lords; but in the army, in refreshing contrast to the House of Lords, even cavalry officers had, in the last analysis, however grudgingly and perfunctorily, to abide by the decisions and orders of their chief.
