Hugh Small

Charge of the Light Brigade led by Lord Cardigan at the Battle of Balaclava, by Harry Payne, 1884. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. Public Domain.

Why the Light Brigade Charged

The fatalist view of the Light Brigade’s charge towards the Russian guns at Balaclava is being challenged. They had their reasons why.