2-620-473 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Balaclava, 25th October 1854. The Charge of the Scots Greys. 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 The Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine Volume I [The Illustrated London News, London, 1884]