Josh Clark

And when they got back, they found that of the 670 members of the Leiper Gate who undertook this charge, 110 were killed, 160 were wounded, 375 horses were killed.

So 670 of the members, more than half of them lost their horse.

And apparently some of the men told Cardigan that they were ready to go again.

I mean, I can't imagine if you thought you were going on a suicide mission and it actually worked out and you made it back alive.

I'm sure you were invigorated as probably underselling it.

We would have been like, wait, are you sure that's what he said?

Because this doesn't make any sense.

Let's talk this through.

Mm-hmm.

That's pretty good reporting.

I think you mentioned before that the Charge of the Light Brigade is viewed as an enormous military blunder.

It's still very much taught in schools as what not to do.

I think it's also shorthand among military people for any senseless waste of soldiers' lives by higher-ups calling bad shots.

But it's also revered as an incredibly brave, courageous act.

And that's what's celebrated, not the fact that they even were successful.

That's not the most celebrated fact.

It was that these men just basically put their nose down and did what they had to do.

However you feel about that, that's essentially what the poem celebrates most of all.

Yeah, that's the most famous of all of them.

I think you should.