1-216-797 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War, October 25, 1854, (1893). Lord Raglan gave the order for the disastrous British cavalry charge, immortalised in Tennyson's poem, in which the Light Brigade suffered 40% casualties. An engraving from James Taylor's The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time, William Mackenzie, (London, 1893).