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This handsome man, Ambrose X was an army officer and politician who fought in the American Civil War.
A fashion style has been named after him. Can you guess it?
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Sideburns
The moustache was earlier called burnside after Ambrose Burnside, the army general. Later on the syllables were reversed to the form that we know today.
Read about Burnside & his sideburns.