Colonel Shewell, of the 8th Hussars, saw the danger, and rode his few men straight at them, cutting his way through with fearful loss. Wounded men and dismounted troopers flying towards us told the sad tale.At the very moment when they were about to retreat, an enormous mass of lancers was hurled upon their flank. Through the clouds of smoke we could see their sabers flashing as they rode up to the guns and dashed between 'them, cutting down the gunners as they stood.We saw them riding through the guns, as I have said to our delight we saw them returning, after breaking through a column of Russian infantry, and scattering them like chaff, when the flank fire of the battery on the hill swept them down, scattered and broken as they were. They were exposed to an oblique fireįrom the batteries on the hills on both sides, as wed as to a direct fire of Which was many a noble fellow's death cry, they flew into the smoke of theīatteries but ere they were lost from view, the plain was strewed with theirīodies and with the carcasses of horses. Thinned by those thirty guns, which the Russians had laid with the most deadlyĪccuracy, with a halo of flashing steel above their heads, and with a cheer They never halted or checked their speed an instant. The first line was broken - it was joined by the second, Their flight was marked by instant gaps in our ranks, by dead men and horses, by steeds flying wounded or riderless across the plain.
At the distance of 1200 yards the whole line of the enemy belched forth, from thirty iron mouths, a flood of smoke and flame, through which hissed the deadly balls. A more fearful spectacle was never witnessed than by those who, without the power to aid, beheld their heroic countrymen rushing to the arms of death. They advanced in two lines, quickening their pace as they closed towards the enemy. We could hardly believe the evidence of our senses! Surely that handful of men were not going to charge an army in position? Alas! it was but too true - their desperate valor knew no bounds, and far indeed was it removed from its so-called better part - discretion. "They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendor of war. We join Russell's account as the Light Brigade London Illustrated News and was present at the battle. William Howard Russell was a correspondent for the "They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun." History remembers the charge of the Light Brigade as an example of the extraordinary bravery of the British soldier in the face of enemy fire in spite of poor leadership. It is madness." When news of the action reached London, it caused a national scandal that prompted Tennyson to pen his poem. Observing the charge, a French Marshall remarked: "It is magnificent, but it is not war. An estimated 278 of the Light Brigade were killed or wounded. Unbeknown to them, the valley was ringed on three sides by some 20 battalions of Russian infantry and artillery. Through a miscommunication of orders, the Light Brigade of approximately 600 horsemen began a headlong charge into a treeless valley with the objective of capturing some Russian field artillery at its end. The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during a battle near the city of Balaclava on October 25, 1854. Of the British Light Brigade into murderous Russian fire an action immortalized Is one valorously tragic incident of the campaign: the headlong cavalry charge Of attacking Russia's naval base at the city of Sevastopol and thereby weakenĪlthough the war itself is only a dim recollection, what is vividly remembered BritishĪnd French forces landed in the Crimea in the fall of 1854 with the objective Was in Russia's Crimean Peninsula, which gave the conflict its name. Have dominant influence in the declining Ottoman Empire. Their dispute centered on which side would With the Russian Empire on one side and Britain, France, the Kingdom of SardiniaĪnd the Ottoman Empire on the other. Has long been forgotten in the collective memory. What specifically ignited the Crimean War in 1854 The Rough Riders Storm San Juan Hill, 1898 The United States Declares War on Spain, 1898 Leaving Home for the "Promised Land", 1894 Livingstone Discovers Victoria Falls, 1855Īndrew Carnegie Becomes a Capitalist, 1856 Dolley Madison Flees the White House, 1814
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