1-629-601 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Battle of Balaclava, 25th October 1854', (c1920). Lord Raglan gave the order for the disastrous British cavalry charge, immortalised in Tennyson's poem, in which the Light Brigade suffered 40% casualties. Illustration from Story of the British Nation, Volume IV, by Walter Hutchinson, (London, c1920s).