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Portrait of General Lord Edward Somerset, British soldier, 1821. In 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo, Brigadier Somerset (1776-1842) commanded the Household Cavalry Brigade, which endured heavy enemy fire and charged Milhaud's French cuirassiers. Brigadier Somerset was mentioned in dispatches by the Duke of Wellington. from the collection of Apsley House, London.