| Okay, Kids! Here is a little quiz for you on | | | | Barnett said: |
| the Charge of the Light Brigade:Question: | | | | |
| What made the Charge of the Light Brigade | | | | It is curious that ... the charge of the |
| famous?Answer: Read the answer at Historians | | | | Light Brigade should loom so large in British |
| are still shaking their heads about a muddled | | | | legend. Only 673 men were involved, and they |
| attack on superior forces. A famous poem kept | | | | lost 157 men out of 20 000 war dead. Why have |
| the pot stirring.Question: What armies were | | | | the British chosen to make a sentimental |
| engaged?Answer: The British were fighting the | | | | legend out of a pointless effort arising from |
| Russians.Question: What war was that | | | | muddled orders? The entirely successful and |
| anyway?Answer: The charge took place at the | | | | equally gallant charge of the Heavy Brigade |
| Battle of Balaclava (Ukraine) in the Crimean | | | | earlier on the same day is generally |
| War (1854-56).Question: What was the fighting | | | | forgotten... See again EndJohn T. Jones, |
| all about?Answer: The Russians had taken the | | | | Ph.D. (, a retired VP of R&D for Lenox China, |
| Dardanelles. The British were afraid their | | | | is author of detective & western novels, |
| sea lanes would be jeopardized.Question: Who | | | | nonfiction (business, scientific, |
| wrote the famous poem The Charge of the Light | | | | engineering, humor), poetry, etc. Former |
| Brigade?Answer: Lord Tennyson. The poem is | | | | editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine. He calls |
| short so read the poem at historian Corelli | | | | himself "Taylor Jones, the hack writer. |