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