Chuck Bryant
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Like weight-wise, sort of?
Yeah, and when I said weight-wise, I meant lighter horses, faster horses, presumably lighter men on those horses.
I imagine it was just a bunch of people that were fleet of foot and horses that were fleet of hoof.
Their job, if you were a light brigade, was to ride very quickly across the battlefield to move places with great speed, sometimes to deliver battle orders with great speed.
The heavy brigade is exactly what you would think.
Bigger horses, bigger men, close combat, breaking through enemy lines, kind of kicking butt and taking names.
Yeah, they probably had better hair in the light brigade.
You know, like the handsome, like, all right, now all the rough stuff's done.
Get us in here on our little fleet horses.
Yeah, but it's the heavy brigade, so they did a lot of damage.
The Russian cavalry, now it's in my head, they kind of scrambled to get out of there.
And here's where we get to a point where there's sort of a fateful, confusing order that brings us to the actual light brigade story.
And we're going to introduce some...
Some people here, none of whom seem to be very competent at warring.
So basically people like you and I would have been.
Yeah, for sure.
So he gets up on this high, about a 600-foot high ridge.