Britain had come into the war in part to protect Turkey from Russian encroachments, but few Britons had any confidence in the Turkish Army.
#WHO WON THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE SERIES#
The small knot of British officers rode across a broad plain past a series of hastily constructed Turkish redoubts. Lord William Paulet and Major McManon joined Paget in this nocturnal excursion. Paget decided to follow his chief, though at a respectful distance of some 50 yards. In fact, it was his custom to inspect the outposts that guarded the British supply base at Balaklava. Lucan was the commander of the entire cavalry division, but his presence at such an early hour caused no concern. Lord Lucan commanded the British cavalry at Balaklava.
George Bingham, Third Earl of Lucan, and his staff. Suddenly, movement stirred the predawn darkness, shadowy, spectral figures that Paget identified as Lt. A pale gray smear brought the Crimean hills into sharp relief, harbinger of the morning sun, but at this early hour all else was plunged into gloom. It was about an hour before daybreak, and as usual the whole British Cavalry Division turned out and were standing by their horses. Lord George was also brevet colonel and the head of the 4th Light Dragoons. Lord George Paget rose early in the morning of October 25, 1854, he had no inkling of, as he later put it, “the day’s work in store for us.” Paget was part of an Anglo-French expeditionary force now besieging the Russian naval base at Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula.
0 kommentar(er)
