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