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The 21st Century Charge of the Light Brigade: 600 men on horseback galloping into gunfire
Daily Mail ^ | 3 February 2018 | Doug Stanton

Posted on 02/03/2018 6:33:45 PM PST by mairdie

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To: sphinx
...He charged the only guns he could see. The staff officer who carried the message, Captain Nolan...

As I remember the book, Cardigan saw both positions, and was confused as to which target to attack, and Nolan pointed pointed his riding crop in the general direction at the end of the valley and said "There is your enemy."

And so it began.

21 posted on 02/04/2018 7:16:00 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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PING


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