2-653-246 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Heavy Cavalry Charge at Balaclava', 1902. 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. From Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. I. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1902]