The Charge Of The Light Brigade: What Went Wrong? | The Crimean War

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The Battle of Balaclava, 1954. The Light Brigade, an elite cavalry unit was ordered to charge a battery of Russian artillery head on, resulting in tremendous casualties. Only after the fact would they find out that this death trap wasn’t the commander’s intended target and their charge “into the valley of death” was all for nothing.

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