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I just read Mark Twain's famous short story Luck, about the exploits of the bumbling 19th century British General Arthur Scoresby. (Does anyone else think this guy was a big inspiration for Forrest Gump?). Twain implies that Scoresby is the alias of a real, famous Crimean War-era officer - does anyone know who that might be, and where I might find background on him?

Lord Cardigan is the only Crimean War officer I know of. IIRC, he was responsible for a few titanic clusterfucks but still got hailed as a hero by the folks back home.