Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Today is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Balaclava. I commented about the revision of the Times’ article of 1854. That they did so was in the light of more recent reflection on the Battle. Far from the hopeless charge into oblivion, the Light Brigade’s charge, while following a mistaken order, resulted in them achieving their objective. A pyrrhic victory, perhaps, but a victory nonetheless.
There’s something very British about the whole thing…
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BBC
Telegraph
Guardian
Also covered at Samizdata Blog
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