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	Military Art by Richard Caton Woodville
		The Charge of the Light Brigade by Caton Woodville (B)
		The Charge of the 21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman by Richard Caton Woodville.
		Depicts the charge of a squadron of the 9th Lancers against the Prussian Dragoons of the Guard at Moncel on the 7th September 1914.
	www.militaryartcompany.com /richard_caton_woodville.htm (1977 words)

	Charge of the Light Brigade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Charge of the Light Brigade was an ill-advised cavalry charge, led by Lord Cardigan, which occurred during the Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 during the Crimean War.
		The charge was made by the Light Brigade of the British cavalry, consisting of the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, 17th Lancers, and the 8th and 11th Hussars, under the command of Major General the Earl of Cardigan.
		Together with the Heavy Brigade comprising the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, the 5th Dragoon Guards, the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons and the Scots Greys, commanded by Major General J Yorke-Scarlett, himself a past Commanding Officer of the 5th Dragoon Guards, these units were the main British cavalry force at the battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade (1710 words)

	The 13th at Balaclava: Charge of the Light Brigade
		Captain Nolan started to ride with the charge, and it is believed took up a position in the interval between the two squadrons of the 17th At any rate, it would appear that thence he darted out when he rode obliquely across the front of the advancing line.
		Charging these, the enemy did not await the attack, but wheeled round and retreated in confusion far along the valley into the gorge near the aqueduct.
		He went to the end of the charge, and was the only officer who came out on the same horse he went in on; he was not wounded [note—this is wrong; he got a lance prod in the ribs, but would not report it].
	www.pinetreeweb.com /13th-balaclava2.htm (6896 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: The Charge of the Light Brigade
		And in the incredible debacle of the Light Brigade at remote Sebastopol, the inhumanity of mid-Victorian England was sharply illuminated.
		This is the army of which Lord Cardigan (Trevor Howard), the man who was to lead the charge of the Light Brigade, is the symbol: the film's Cardigan is a cantakerous old fool who purchased his command, and squandered it with the evil courage of a suicide-victim.
		And when he himself is killed by a piece of shrapnel at the beginning of the Charge, he emits a high-pitched shriek which becomes disembodied--suddenly the contorted face on the screen is no longer producing the sound, for the shriek is that of a modern artillery shell.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=265871 (1056 words)

	The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the "Nek" 17th August 1915
		The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the NEK
		Although second in point of time, the charge of the Light Horse may be described first.
		The First Light Horse Brigade attacked partly from Quinn's Post on the opposite side of the gully and partly from the hill in the gully between the two.
	www.lighthorse.org.au /histbatt/nek.htm (1552 words)

	Charge of the Light Brigade - U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum
		The original charge was led by the Earl of Cardigan on instructions from Commander-in-Chief Lord Raglan.
		Horsemen re-enact the Charge of the Light Brigade.
		There's a fantastic building called Panorama, built late in the 19th century where you stand on a platform in the centre and all around you in a circle there is a continuous scene of the war painted on the walls, with various cannon and earthworks in the foreground actually being real.
	www.uspoliticsonline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=8446 (682 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Magazine \| Why the Charge of the Light Brigade still matters
		This brought the story of the light brigade's charge during the battle of Balaclava to the breakfast tables of Britain, only three weeks after it had happened.
		Re-interpretations of the Charge of the Light Brigade pointed up the failings of aristocratic, self-centred generals, who appeared to have little concern for casualties.
		But the charge of the light brigade lives on as a phrase that has become part of the language - and an example of unthinking bravery - in an event which the Times recorded as an "atrocity without parallel".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3944699.stm (1038 words)

	SparkNotes: Tennyson's Poetry: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
		SparkNotes: Tennyson's Poetry: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
		The poem tells the story of a brigade consisting of 600 soldiers who rode on horseback into the "valley of death" for half a league (about one and a half miles).
		"The Charge of the Light Brigade" recalls a disastrous historical military engagement that took place during the initial phase of the Crimean War fought between Turkey and Russia (1854-56).
	www.sparknotes.com /poetry/tennyson/section9.rhtml (1016 words)

	The Charge of the Light Brigade
		The result was the Charge of the Light Brigade on 25 October 1854.
		The 13th Light Dragoons were placed on the right of the front line, the 17th Lancers in the centre, the 11th Hussars on the left but slightly behind the regiments to the right of them.
		The Charge of the Light Brigade by R. Caton Woodville.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/crimea/chargelb.html (3229 words)

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	[minstrels] Charge of the Light Brigade -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
		Charge for the guns!' he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
		To call 'Charge of the Light Brigade' an old favourite is perhaps to understate its popularity - few poems before or since have caught the public imagination to the extent Tennyson's account of heroism against all odds has.
		I have a first edition 1855 copy of Tennyson's poems and your version of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is really quite different from his 1864 version.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/355.html (1237 words)

	Balaklava and the Charge of the Light Brigade
		Soon after the battle the valley became known as the `Valley of Death', as a result of the Light Brigade's ill-fated charge.The day began with a number of attempts by the Russian army to put themselves in a good position to attack the base at Balaklava, but these ended in stalemate.
		The result was that the instruction was misunderstood as as an order for the Light Brigade to charge directly at the Russian guns, a mile and a half up the valley, with Russian artillery and riflemen firing at them from both sides as they did so.
		For the Russian onlookers, the charge appeared to be an act of lincomprehensible lunacy, although there was also a measure of respect for the bravery of the soldiers involved.
	www.blacksea-crimea.com /Places/Balaklava.html (801 words)

	The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson - Poetry Archive
		The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson - Poetry Archive
		In the course of this action, undertaken in error due to misinterpreted orders, the Light Brigade (that is cavalry bearing only light arms) attempted to capture the Russian gun redoubts at Balaclava with disastrous results.
		The "three hundred" mentioned are the men of the Heavy Brigade and their commander, Sir James Yorke Scarlett, but the poem never caught the public's imagination.
	www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1570 (636 words)

	Amazon.com: The Charge of the Light Brigade: DVD: Trevor Howard,Vanessa Redgrave,John Gielgud,Harry Andrews,Jill ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As such, the Light Brigade headed directly through the North valley towards the furthest Russian gun emplacements to the East as opposed to charging towards the nearest gun emplacements to the South-East on the Causeway Heights.
		Although the brigade succeeded in dislodging the artillery and routing the Russian cavalry, their numbers were too few to capitalize on their gains: they instead withdrew back to their original positions in an ordered fashion.
		Despite the blunder, their mad charge was undertaken with such order and discipline that, for the rest of the Crimean War, the Russians would often refuse to fight the British cavalry even when they had a significant numerical superiority.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000062XEW?v=glance (3511 words)

	Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Earl Lucan's Heavy and Light Brigade hurriedly mounted to cover the retreat of the Turks.
		The elements involved in the coming charge were the 17th Lancers and the 13th Light Dragoons in the front ranks, the 11th Hussars and the 4th Light Dragoons behind them, and the 8th Hussars in the rear.
		So a little past 11 o'clock the 673 men of the Light Brigade charged one and a half miles down the North Valley into the face of the Russian artillery.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/charge36.html (417 words)

	Background to the Charge of the Light Brigade
		Whatever the reasons, the famous charge by the British Light Cavalry Brigade at a strong, but the wrong, Russian force on 25 October 1854 struck a chord in Victorian Britain.
		He let a personal quarrel with his brother-in-law - Lord Cardigan, commander of the Light Brigade - reach such a point that their respective staffs refused to co-operate and an order from Lucan to Cardigan was misconstrued, leading to the charge.
		The whole Brigade scarcely made one effective regiment, according to the numbers of the continental armies; and yet it was more than we could spare.
	www.uea.ac.uk /edu/learn/braysher/charge.htm (708 words)

	The Battle of Balaklava Part 5 - The Charge of the Light Brigade
		The Light Brigade were in exactly the right place, so they would have to lead.
		In the front, or first line, the 13th Light Dragoons were on the right; Lucan's old regiment, the 17th Lancers were in the centre; and Cardigan's old regiment, the 11th Hussars were on the left.
		In the second line, known as the support line, were the 8th Hussars on the right, and the 4th Light Dragoons, commanded by Lord Paget.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/crimean_war/77958 (434 words)

	The Charge of the Light Brigade
		On Earth today people are still charging into "the jaws of death" and it’s "their’s not to reason why, their’s but to do and die".
		One of the origins of the word "brigade" iz to associate with, to be together.
		The words "charge" (power of Love), "light" (knowledge of Truth) and "brigade" (gathering of Life) combined in a trinity interact and are the foundational ingredients behind all creations.
	www.borntosun.com /cc/messages/4.html (628 words)

	The Charge of the Light Brigade - A History
		The strength of the brigade was 670, and of these only 195 answered 'here!' Every man had blood on him, with the exception of our commanding officer, Lord Cardigan.
		Though his clothes were cut and torn, yet I do not think that he received a wound, and I am quite certain that he was the only man who escaped unhurt.
		I saw Captain Nolan, our regimental commander, who had brought the moving order from Lord Raglan to Lord Cardigan, waving his sword toward the latter, and indicating that it was the batteries on the right which had been intended in the order.
	www.perfessorbill.com /lyrics/lyltbrig.htm (717 words)

	YouTube - The Charge of The Light Brigade (1936), Errol Flynn
		In the film, the The Light Brigade were motivated by revenge for the Chukoti massacre (in India)in which their loved ones were butchered.
		Raglan ordered the Light Brigade to "prevent the enemy carrying away the guns", a notably badly-worded instruction that prompted the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.
		The Light Brigade was saved from total destruction by an intervention from the French 4th Chasseurs d'Afrique.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=pXzCOlPHFmc (644 words)

	Channel 4 - History - The Charge of the Light Brigade
		But, to keep the story bowling along, it is prepared to compress the chronology and accord the deeds of one historical figure to another.
		Raglan's intention was not, as the film suggests, for the Light Brigade to outflank the guns by advancing up the south valley.
		More easily forgivable are minor anomalies such as the presence of only two regiments during the charge (there were five) and the kitting-out of the 17th Lancers in scarlet breeches (only the 11th Hussars wore 'cherrybum' overalls).
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/a-b/brigade.html (910 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Charge Of The Light Brigade [1968]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dramatisation detailing the events that led to the destruction of the Light Brigade at the Crimea, of the men who were sent to their death and those behind what is now recognised as one of British history's major military blunders.
		Tony Richardson's Charge Of the Light Brigade is a truly great movie in every regard.
		The Charge of the Light Brigade and why it happened at all (the way it happened...) is very well presented, but also the battle of the Alma!
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002CH7WU (718 words)

	The Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
		The Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
		This poem was written to memorialize a suicidal charge by light cavalry over open terrain by British forces in the Battle of Balaclava (Ukraine) in the Crimean War (1854-56).
		247 men of the 637 in the charge were killed or wounded.
	www.nationalcenter.org /ChargeoftheLightBrigade.html (173 words)

	The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 b 115') (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 b 115')
		To justify British imperialist militarism in India, a massacre based on Cawnpore during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 is used to explain the Crimean charge of 1854.
		The infamous commander of this charge was the womanizing, dueling Thomas Brudenwell, 57, who was first to reach the lines and survived although 503 of his 700 men were killed.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1936/ChargeofLightBrigade.html (473 words)

	NPR : Retelling the Tale of the Light Brigade
		Detail: 'Charge of the Light Brigade, Balaclava, 25 October, 1854,' painted by Richard Caton II Woodville.
		But however brave it may have been, the charge was a military mistake.
		Following the wrong orders, a light cavalry brigade of 600 to 700 men attacked enemy forces despite being surrounded on three sides by heavy Russian artillery.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4123120 (305 words)

	‘Charge of the light brigade’, ‘Exposure’ and ‘Disabled’
		I am studying the poems ‘Charge of the light brigade’, ‘Exposure’ and ‘Disabled’.
		Wilfred Owen wrote ‘Exposure’ and ‘Disabled’, during World War 1 and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote ‘Charge of the light brigade’ during the Crimean War.
		However, ‘Charge of the light brigade’ is portrays war in a completely different way, it portrays the violent side of war but at the same time he is giving a reason for war and that is patriotism.
	www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=18053 (268 words)

	Amazon.com: Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As the lancers charge into the face of roaring canon, to the right of them, to the left of them, in front of them, quotes from Tennyson's poem appear on screen.
		This version of "The Charge Of the Light Brigade" has to be viewed with an open mind.
		The charge is probably the best action sequence ever filmed but it sickens me to know that approximately 200 horses were killed or maimed and 1 stuntman killed.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302120616?v=glance (1575 words)

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