brigadier

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Member of a brigade":

 _2003_ Mark Bergin *Warfare in the 16th-19th Centuries*  (Brighton:
Salariya) 35: Out of the 607 brigadiers who rode out in the Charge of the
Light Brigade, only 198 returned.

It's for kids but so what.
JL


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