 Complete the following phrase:  Wyndham claimed to be the son of Colonel Charles Wyndham, a regular soldier who served in various Light Dragoon regiments of the British Army and was an ADC to the Duke of Wellington before becoming Lieutet Colonel of the 36th Regiment of Foot. Wyndham had been born in 1833 on board the ship Arab in the Downs. He had begun his career at the age of fifteen, fighting in the Students Corps during the French Revolution of 1848. He said that in July of the same year he was commissioned into the French Navy as a marine ensign, a form of midshipman, before briefly serving in the Royal Artillery of the British Army from 1851 to 1852. After that, he had served until 1860 as a cavalry officer in the Austrian Armys 8th Lancers Regiment, before travelling to Italy to serve under Garibaldi. Wyndham said he had 