Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What was the historical context of the Crimean War?
called Balaclava. And it's about 10 miles south of Sevastopol. And like you said, that's where the headgear comes from or the name of it, because it actually doesn't just come from that town. It comes from this actual battle that happened there. So there's a road between Balaclava and Sevastopol. And they are, because they're connected, both sides need that for supplies, right? Yeah.
So it's a really strategically important road. And before the Brits could try to take the road or secure it, the Russians decided to. And they made a really risky move. They took some of their troops who were battling, because by this time, the Brits and the French were now laying siege to Sevastopol. And the Russians were fighting them off.
And the Russians took some of their troops and moved them around the siegers and put them squarely between the alliance forces sieging Sevastopol and the alliance forces at Balaclava on the road to try to take the road. It was a risky move, but it was also what they had to do to kind of cut the Brits off, the sieging Brits off from supplies 10 miles south of Balaclava.
That's right. So they attack these artillery positions of the Allies on the hills outside of Balaclava. It turned into a pretty chaotic battle scene there. And the Russians did pretty good at first. They had a lot of cavalry. They had a pretty substantial infantry there. And they captured these gun positions, these Turkish and British gun positions on that hilltop.
And this is a place called Causeway Heights. They tried next to take another town called Catacoy, and that was basically the last stop before you got to Balaclava. But this is where the Scots come in, the legendary 93rd Sutherland Highlanders wearing kilts with swords and rifles.
And no underwear.
Yeah, I mean, that's the most intimidating part of all of this. They were led by Major General Sir Colin Campbell. And he had a pretty good idea to defeat these guys, and it worked.
Yeah, normally the Highlanders would form a square of four rows, right? And you're able to defend your flank a lot easier. There's less men exposed. Instead, Campbell said, we're going to form two lines. And they were like, this is mind-blowing. So there were more men exposed, but they were able to shoot further across, right?
Yeah, just more bullets, basically.
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Chapter 3: Who were the key figures involved in the Charge of the Light Brigade?
And by this time, he was 65. Yeah. A little dotty, maybe. Um, he apparently, remember there was a French English alliance that was battling the Russians, but when he would refer to the French, say strategically, they were talking about what the French were doing. He referred to them as the enemy. That was very confusing.
And this battle, the battle of Balaclava was the first time that he had ever led like commanded men in battle. Yeah. Up to that point, he'd been subordinate. This was the first time he was the one calling the shots for the battle. So he had the most experience, and this was the first time he was doing that.
Yeah, for sure. So he gets up on this high, about a 600-foot high ridge. So he's got a great view of the battlefield. The guys down there don't have any kind of view at all. So the orders are going to be getting maybe a little bit confusing because they can't really see what's going on like Raglan can.
Mm-hmm.
he's also pretty far away, so it takes 20 minutes to get, even with the light horse brigade, or the light runner, who we'll meet in a minute too, who hates everybody that's involved here, as it turns out. It takes him about 20 minutes to get there and deliver an order, and presumably a little bit of time to sort of suss that out, and then another 20 minutes to come back.
So it's probably like 40 minutes to an hour for this whole exchange of information to take place. And what Raglan is trying to do is trying to stop the enemy from taking away these heavy guns that they had captured at that Causeway Heights battle. Right. And so he sends the following order.
Lord Raglan wishes the cavalry to advance rapidly to the front, follow the enemy, and try to prevent the enemy carrying away the guns. Troop horse artillery may accompany. French cavalry is on your left. Immediate.
Okay. A little vague. That's the message. A little bit vague. Yeah. So that's problem one. It's vague. Problem two is, like you said, Raglan's up 600 feet with a bird's eye view of everything going on. And the two men who received this order, the Earl of Lucan, George Bingham, and the Earl of Cardigan, James Brudenell,
They're down in one of the valleys, so they can't see these captured guns that Raglan's talking about. And when this man, who you said hated everybody, showed up, Captain Lewis Nolan, they're like, wait, what's going on? What are you talking about?
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Chapter 4: What led to the infamous charge of the Light Brigade?
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.
Yeah. I guess it was, you know, they felt like they did good work. They wanted to do more.
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.
Yeah, but guys like you and I would have said, how about we don't do that again?
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.
All right, so William Howard Russell is writing about this thing like we talked about. He is the one that ends up, and he did some beautiful writing as far as that kind of stuff goes, but he is the one who ended up inspiring Tennyson's poem.
Mm-hmm.
Maybe I'll read this last line at least. It's a pretty good example. At the distance of 1,200 yards, the whole line of the enemy belched forth from 30 iron mouths, a flood of smoke and flame through which hissed the deadly balls. Their flight was marked by instant gaps in our ranks, by dead men and horses, by steeds flying wounded or riderless across the plain.
That's pretty good reporting.
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Chapter 5: What were the outcomes of the Charge of the Light Brigade?
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