The Charge: How They Killed And Died
The dying came first. The charge lasted seven minutes and in that time 110 men of the Light Brigade were killed and 161 wounded, some mutilated beyond recognition. When [...]
Beer And Bawdy Songs In The Crimea War
The Soldier’s Prayer was sung on the ships as the army sailed out to the Crimea, and answered by the sailors: Now the first thing we'll pray for, we'll pray [...]
666 & The Valley Of Death
Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Well, no, not exactly. According to Alfred, Lord Tennyson he wrote his most famous poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, [...]
Riding Hell’s Mile: The Charge Of The Light Brigade
At Balaklava on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. 666 cavalrymen armed with sabre [...]
Eddie’s Crimean War
On the cover of The Trooper, released in June 1983, Eddie swaps his jeans and T-shirt for a red uniform jacket and blue trousers, grasps a sword and a Union [...]
