Chuck Bryant

All right.

It's September 1854.

We've got a little over 60,000 troops total from this alliance, 30,000 from the French, about 26,000 British troops and about 4,500 Turks.

They land on the coast of Crimea and start to hike inland for the turf section 30 miles in.

And that port city of Sevastopol is where they're headed.

Great name.

Russians have great names.

That's right.

And this is when a really interesting decision comes about.

They were worried that there were more Russian armies coming in to that port city to help defend their navy, I guess.

And so they said, all right, here's what we're going to do.

We're going to do the old hook and ladder, and we're going to take a wide path around the city so we can attack from the south.

What they didn't know was that at that time, it was very poorly defended there.

So if they would have

If they would have just kept charging forward, it probably would have been over pretty quickly.

But since they took the long way around, which they thought was a decent strategy, that gave the Russians the chance to re-fortify basically and stock up with men and supplies.

Yeah.

But isn't part of war trying to know that stuff?

Okay.

So when you said they couldn't have known, what you really meant was they didn't know because they didn't do it good.