Josh Clark

And one other thing about George Bingham, the Earl of Lucan, he made his money by as a landlord for poor Irish tenant farmers and then would evict them and send them to the poor house when they couldn't pay rent.

He was not a good guy at all, but that's how he became wealthy enough to buy his position as a commander of the brigade, the cavalry, I guess.

No, he was pointing at a heavily fortified Russian gun position, right?

There were apparently like 30 or 40 cannons there.

And what, again, Raglan was talking about were some poorly defended captured artillery guns elsewhere, right?

I think they were on one of the sides.

So when he pointed, he was pointing to the center of three heavily fortified Russian positions, right?

on, I think, a ridge overlooking a valley, and basically said, Raglan is telling you to charge the Light Brigade.

This isn't even a job for a Light Brigade, but you and the Light Brigade are supposed to charge straight to those Russian guns in the middle of this horribly dangerous place for you guys to be.

Let's go.

No.

I know we haven't gotten to the Light Brigade, the actual charge yet, but should we take a break now?

Yeah, and there was no one there who was like, oh, okay, this is a good idea.

Let's do this.

But they didn't question the orders.

So when they entered this valley of death, that's what I think Tennyson called it later, right?

Yeah.

they were again charging right for Russian cannons straight ahead.

And then there were Russian artillery positions on either side, and they're running right through this.

And right when they start riding through this valley of death, they just start getting fired upon.