However, another of its features also remains in our memories: The Charge of the Light Brigade. That was a small engagement that ended the inconclusive Battle of Balaclava on Oct. 25, 1854.

Alfred Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, memorialized the bravery of British soldiers as they attacked Russian forces in the 1854 battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War ...

Most of you will of heard of the Crimean War, 1853-56, along with Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade but with a modern battle going on in the Ukraine and Crimea are there any ...

Tennyson honoured the men who fought in this battle in his best-known poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'This life-sized portrait photograph by E Fowler Richards is of William Pearson of ...

Trooper Parkes was only the second Army recipient to be given the VC. He risked his life to save a regimental trumpeter and the second-in-command of his regiment, the Queen's Royal Hussars. Despite ...

Captain Morgan had another challenge for Sir Briggs before returning home. "They survived the Charge of the Light Brigade, which not a lot of people did," Clunes said.

This sword belonged to Mr John Ashley Kilvert and was used by him during the Crimean War. His regiment, the 11th Hussars, was part of the famed 600 who took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade ...