On 25 October 1854, during the Battle Balaklava in the Crimean War, the British Light Cavalry Brigade, which was led by Lord Cardigan, mounted a cavalry charge against a well-entrenched Russian artillery battery. Most of the 600 British who participated in the charge never returned. The event inspired Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” which at one time nearly every student learned in school. But Crimean is a long wa…
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