Cornet
.The terrible cornet of horse. William Pitt, first Earl of Chatham (1708–1778). His son William was “the pilot that weathered the storm” (meaning the French Revolution and Napoleon).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.