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Survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade
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The Charge of the Light Brigade was led by Lord Cardigan during the Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 in the Crimean War. It is best remembered as the subject of a famous poem entitled The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, whose lines "Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die" have made the charge a symbol of warfare at both its most courageous and its most tragic.
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.
Cardigan led 673 men straight into the valley between the Fedyukhin Heights and the Causeway Heights, famously dubbed the "Valley of Death". The opposing Russian forces included around 20 battalions of infantry supported by over fifty artillery pieces. These forces were deployed on both sides and at the opposite end of the valley.
The brigade suffered 118 men killed, 127 wounded.
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