title: Better Reasons Why!
abstract: This chapter examines the “Charge of the Light Brigade” during the Battle of Balaklava. Inadequate redoubts on the Causeway Heights, manned by Ottoman troops and British gunners, were quickly over-run by a very strong Russian force intent on destroying the British supply base in the Crimea. Their probing attacks were beaten off by British infantry and cavalry. Thereafter, the Russians prepared to remove the captured British guns in the redoubts. Lord Raglan, the British Commanding General, insis