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Britain won the war.
They did very much so, and in fact their charge helped to win it as it disrupted the Russian batteries and demoralized the defenders of Stabastopol.Britain won the war.
I'm sure the Light Brigade appreciated that.
They did very much so, and in fact their charge helped to win it as it disrupted the Russian batteries and demoralized the defenders of Stabastopol.Britain won the war.
I'm sure the Light Brigade appreciated that.
The charge is now a staple in British lore of a few effecting the outcome of war through couragious scarifice.
They did very much so, and in fact their charge helped to win it as it disrupted the Russian batteries and demoralized the defenders of Stabastopol.I'm sure the Light Brigade appreciated that.
The charge is now a staple in British lore of a few effecting the outcome of war through couragious scarifice.
"Couragious Scarifice"? It was a fumbling mistake by the General Staff and garbled orders...and that cannot be abided, so make them martyr-like heros.
The charge of the Light Brigade continues to be studied by modern military historians and students as an example of what can go wrong when accurate military intelligence is lacking and orders are unclear. Sir Winston Churchill, who was a keen military historian and a former cavalryman, insisted on taking time out during the Yalta Conference in 1945 to see the battlefield for himself.
The brigade was not completely destroyed, but did suffer terribly, with 118 men killed, 127 wounded. After regrouping, only 195 men were still with horses. The futility of the action and its reckless bravery prompted the French Marshal Pierre Bosquet to state "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre." ("It is magnificent, but it is not war.") He continued, in a rarely quoted phrase: "C'est de la folie" "it is madness."[8] The Russian commanders are said to have initially believed that the British soldiers must have been drunk.[7] Somerset Calthorpe, ADC to Lord Raglan, wrote a letter to a friend three days after the charge. He detailed casualty numbers, but he did not make distinction between those killed and those taken prisoner:
Wrong.They did very much so, and in fact their charge helped to win it as it disrupted the Russian batteries and demoralized the defenders of Stabastopol.I'm sure the Light Brigade appreciated that.
The charge is now a staple in British lore of a few effecting the outcome of war through couragious scarifice.
"Couragious Scarifice"? It was a fumbling mistake by the General Staff and garbled orders...and that cannot be abided, so make them martyr-like heros.
And the poem is now primarily known for the title and a single lineIn fact the episode was not even known until the poem was published.
Charge for the guns' he said:
Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred
