Chuck Bryant

All right, so now we're finally at the light brigade charge.

It was not supposed to happen that way.

Again, it was a misunderstood or misdelivered, at least, order.

And Lucan and Cardigan didn't know.

They had 670 cavalrymen in this light brigade, one of the most famous blunders in military history.

They said, basically, all right, let's do this thing.

And they went charging through what was known as the Valley of Death.

Yeah, there were people that survived it, and they said that limbs were being shot off, heads were being shot off, horses were running around without people on them or with just bodies on them without heads.

There was so much smoke, apparently.

One soldier said it was like riding into the mouth of a volcano.

the heavy brigade, it was going so badly, the heavy brigade was supposed to follow.

It was kind of reversed, I guess.

And Lucan said, no, he pulled those orders back and pulled back the heavy brigade even.

Yeah, and they ended up getting all three of those positions because they went back into position.

The Light Brigade took out one of those positions.

Which, by the way, I don't know if we made it clear, but one of those positions was the original order, which I guess they eventually got to.

They just did it out of order.

And then the other one was destroyed by a French light cavalry unit called the African Hunters or the how would you pronounce that?

Hey, it's been paying off for 18 years for us.

A little French from you, a little German from me, and everything else mispronounced.