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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: 1st King's Dragoon Guards officers, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) officers, Robert Ballard Long, Banastre Tarleton, Francis Younghusband, John Le Marchant, Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Jack Harman, Maurice Robert Johnston, William Lumley, Mark Phillips, Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, John Bettesworth-Trevanion, Walter Colquhoun Grant, George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke, Herbert Taylor, Henry Fane, Benjamin d'Urban, Michael Mates, N. H. Gibbs, Sir David Dundas, 1st Baronet, Samuel Emile Harvey, William Augustus Pitt, George Howard, John Hamilton Gray, Henry Edward Fox, William Yates, Charles James Briggs, Henry Cavendish, Robert Balfour, 6th of Balbirnie, Percy Sykes, Evelyn Fanshawe, Humphrey Bland, Gilbert Mitchison, Baron Mitchison, Robert Blair, Gerard Crole, Sir John Rogers, 6th Baronet, Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry, Edmund Hoyle Vestey, Simon Mayall, Charles Craufurd, Francis North, 4th Earl of Guilford, John Mostyn, Robert Sloper, Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith, Charles Mawhood, Alfred Hutton, Thomas Frederick Mackenzie Humberston, Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, William Smyth Bernard, Freeman Barnardo, Coote Synge-Hutchinson. Excerpt: Lieutenant-General Robert Ballard Long (4 April 1771 - 2 March 1825) was an officer of the British and Hanoverian Armies who despite extensive service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars never managed to achieve high command due to his abrasive manner with his superiors and his alleged tactical ineptitude. Although he remained a cavalry commander in the Peninsular War between 1809 and 1814, the British commander Wellington became disillusioned with Long's abilities. Wellington's opinion was never expressed directly, though whe...