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Organization the Allies for the Balaclava campaign. 1st Division - Lieutenant-General Prince George, Duke of Cambridge with 4,000 men. 1st Guards Brigade - Major-General Henry Bentinck. 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards - Brevet Colonel Edward Birch Reynardson; 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards - Brevet Colonel George Upton
Battle of Balaclava: The Charge of the Light Brigade. Lucan was puzzled by Raglan's imprecise order. [82] There was no mention of heights – it referred instead to the front – and gone were all references to infantry. He was to try to 'prevent the enemy carrying away the guns' but from his position he could not see any guns being carried away.
The charge was the result of a misunderstood order from the commander-in-chief, Lord Raglan, who had intended the Light Brigade to attack a different objective for which light cavalry was better suited, to prevent the Russians from removing captured guns from overrun Turkish positions. The Light Brigade made its charge under withering direct ...
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Despite an indecisive result at Balaclava the British and French allied army gained a victory at the Battle of Inkerman in November 1854 and Raglan was promoted to the rank of field marshal on 5 November 1854. [25] He was also awarded the Ottoman Empire Order of the Medjidie, 1st Class on 15 May 1855. [26]
George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, GCB (16 April 1800 – 10 November 1888), styled Lord Bingham before 1839, was an Anglo-Irish peer and military officer. He was one of three men, along with Louis Nolan and Lord Raglan, responsible for the fateful order during the Battle of Balaclava in October 1854 that led to the Light Brigade commander, the Earl of Cardigan, leading the Charge of ...
Balaclava gave the Russians a morale boost and convinced them that the Allied lines were thinly spread out and undermanned. [11] But after their defeat at Inkerman, [19] the Russians saw that the siege of Sevastopol would not be lifted by a battle in the field, so instead they moved troops into the city to aid the defenders. Toward the end of ...
Lieutenant-General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan KCB (16 October 1797 – 28 March 1868), styled as Lord Cardigan, was an officer in the British Army who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, leading its charge at the Battle of Balaclava.