. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across tor what he thought of it. There has been a great deal of controversy about the matter, wasthe reply. It is difficult to arrive at the exact facts, as Captain Nolan,who brought the order for the cavalry to advance, was killed in the the statements of all concerned in issuing, receiving, and exe-cuting the order, it is evident that the order was blundered was the understanding immediately after the controversy
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across tor what he thought of it. There has been a great deal of controversy about the matter, wasthe reply. It is difficult to arrive at the exact facts, as Captain Nolan,who brought the order for the cavalry to advance, was killed in the the statements of all concerned in issuing, receiving, and exe-cuting the order, it is evident that the order was blundered was the understanding immediately after the controversy; Tenny-sons poem on the affair originally contained the following: Then up came an order Which some one had blundered. THE FAMOUS CHARGE AT BALAKLAVA. 501 Afterwards these lines were stricken out, and do not appear in the poemas printed in the editions of Tennysons works. The commander of the French army justly remarked of this charge, C^est magnijique, mais ce nhstpas la guerre ( It is magnificent, but it isnot war). Twelve thousand Russians had attacked the English with theintention of taking Balaklava and its port, but they were compelled to re-. BKITISU SULDIEHS IN CAMl. tire to the end of the valley. They had re-formed, with their artillery infront, and infantry and cavalry immediately -behind. By the misunder-standing of the order of Lord Raglan, the British commander-in-chief,Lord Lucan, who commanded the cavalry division, ordered Lord Cardiganto charge with his light cavalry. In other words the light cavalry, six hundred and seventy strong,were to attack twelve thousand Russians with thirty cannon on theirfront. The charge was over a plain a mile and a half long, and the Rus-sians had a battery of field artillery on each side of the valley within sup- 502 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. porting distance of that at the end. Consequently there is an excellentdescription of the scene in Tennysons lines, Cannon to right of to left of them,Cannon in fr
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