Josh Clark

So I feel like we've kind of been dancing around this whole light brigade thing.

And for a long time until I started researching this for this episode, I just assumed light as in like a bright light or something like that.

Oh, interesting.

Okay.

It makes way more sense now that what you're talking about is a light brigade, right?

Yeah, rather than as opposed to a heavy brigade, both of which are part of the cavalry that the Brits and the French used at the time.

Yeah, and so like when the heavy brigade broke up the enemy line, as like the enemy was retreating, you'd send in the light brigade who would chase the enemy down and slash them with their swords and stuff, right?

They probably did.

With their Habsburg chins.

So there was, in addition to the charge of the Light Brigade at this, so we're at the Battle of Balaclava still.

This is where all of this happens, right?

Remember that the Highlanders already turned back the Russian cavalry once.

Now the Heavy Brigade is actually sent in.

Their charge of the Heavy Brigade came before the charge of the Light Brigade.

Yeah.

And I think it was pretty effective when they hit up the Russians.

I think there were 800 horsemen in the heavy brigade running into 3,000 Russians in the Russian line.

Yeah, imagine if we were rich and said, I want to be a lieutenant.

I'm going to pay to be a lieutenant in the army and command soldiers.

That was a thing.