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Charge of the Light Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville Jr.. The charge was made by the Light Brigade of the British cavalry, which consisted of the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, the 17th Lancers, and the 8th and 11th Hussars, [1] under the command of Major General James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan.
The Battle of Beersheba (Turkish: Birüssebi Muharebesi, German: Schlacht von Beerscheba) [Note 1] was fought on 31 October 1917, when the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) attacked and captured the Ottoman Empire's Yildirim Army Group garrison at Beersheba, beginning the Southern Palestine Offensive of the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I.
The Charge of the Light Brigade, a charge of British light cavalry against a larger Russian force, was made famous because of Lord Tennyson's poetic retelling of the events. Charge of the Light Brigade (October 25, 1854) at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. Due to faulty orders a tiny force of 670 British light cavalrymen charged an ...
A Cavalry Charge (1892 – Okehampton Town Hall) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1894 – Palacio Real de Madrid) Waterloo: The Old Guard, (Palacio Real de Madrid) The Storming of the Great Redoubt at the Battle of the Alma, (1896 – Coldstream Guards) The Relief of the Light Brigade, (1897 – National Army Museum)
Soldiers from the 10th Light Horse Regiment with unclaimed kitbags of the dead after the charge at the Nek The assault by the third wave was launched at 04:45, and came to a quick end as before. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] Brazier made another attempt to reason with Antill, as did the 10th Light Horse Regiment's second-in-command, Major Allan Love.
The regiment was designated a light dragoons in 1818, becoming the 4th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons and went to fight at the Battle of Ghazni in July 1839 during the First Anglo-Afghan War. [2] The charge of the Light Brigade, October 1854; The 4th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons were in the second line of cavalry (in the middle ...
It saw service for three centuries, including the First World War and the Second World War. The regiment survived the immediate post-war reduction in forces, but was slated for reduction in the 1957 Defence White Paper, and was amalgamated with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers to form the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) in 1960.
On 11 August 1914, the 4th Light Horse Regiment was raised in Melbourne, as the divisional cavalry regiment of the 1st Division. [1] Light horse regiments normally comprised twenty-five officers and 497 other ranks serving in three squadrons, each of six troops. [2] Each troop was divided into eight sections, of four men each.