Battle of balaclava

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Sardinia-Piedmont.

The feather bonnet is a Military headdress used in the Scottish Highland infantry of the British Army from 1763 until the beginning of World War I. The feather bonnet began with the knitted tam o’shanter with chequered border, was popped up and worn with a tall hackle. During the 18th Century the highlanders adapted…

The Charge of the Light Brigade was a charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. Diagram of the Charge of the Light Brigade The red British Light Regiment (left) Advanced Down North Valley to confront the Blue Russian Battery & Related Regiment

Charge of the Light Brigades- British 17th Lancers at the Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War- by Stanley Berkeley

British 17th lancers charging against Russian artillery at the Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War

Battle of Balaclava in the Crimea on 25 October 1854, as a British Private gallops into the Russian Cossacks and Uhlans to cut off the retreat of the Light Brigade.

Boris Johnson inadvertently compared Brexit to the massacre of British troops at the Battle of Balaclava in 1854, a defeat immortalized in verse.

Lord Cardigan rallying the 15th Hussars for the famous Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War

A new collection of letters, many written just hours after the notorious military blunder, reveal how ordinary soldiers could tell immediately how fatal the bloody charge in Crimea in 1854 would be.