Charge Of The Light Brigade - Battle of Balaclava 2/2

The Battle of Balaclava, as seen in the movie The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1968). Part 2 of 2

Movie information, cast and plot summary:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0062790/

More information about the Crimean War and the Battle of Balaclava:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Balaclava

Category:

Film & Animation

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• charge
• light
• brigade
• battle
• balaclava
• crimean
• war
• john
• gielgud
• david
• hemmings

[mdnickens01]

Ah, youtube war movie clips where the excruciating minutia of military history must be debated by people with PhDs in Googleology.

ANYWAY! Thumbs up if Iron Maiden brought you here!

[ConstantineJoseph]

Almost 10 years later, Pickett's man would do a similar fool hardy charge (although infantry only) at a prepared defense.

I assure you, no army in the world can ever break a well prepared line, supported with artillery just by valiantly charging in a frontal assault.

Why? Its because the artillery can engage at long range and is extremely deadly at close range with canister shot that will tear apart anything in front of the gun.

Artillery is also called the king of the battlefield.

[AzelRavenWood]

@ConstantineJoseph I don't know...anything is possible. I also remember an account were it stated that the Russians started to retreat from the Light Brigade's charge until they figured out that the Light Brigade had no other support, for which they quickly counter charged and forced the Light Brigade back.

[acb1511]

@acb1511 1850 is BY FAR not 1812, how much shot do I have, untill the enemy charged thorugh my fiing range, with a breech loading carbine? Regading the speed of the horsemen? About, 15-20 I will have. I think, many of the thshots will have quiet bad result - absolutey nothing worries me in that valley, the cariging ones are like bugs on a dish.

In any case, such "mongolic hordes" as show here I fing hard to believe them would stand a survival chance.

Can somebody explain me?

[acb1511]

Will somebody expalin me, how did they actually fullfill mounted charges at that times, at all?

I judge from modern positions. I am positioned in a dissipated group on the hill positons awat from the baterry. My earpon is a single-shot carbine. THere ae not 1 and not 10 guys like me, we ar epositioned to the leaft and to the right of the baterry. Such "monglolic hordes", as shown in te movie, would be ofr a range of ca. 1 km. in my firing rage.

[Patchman123]

@ConstantineJoseph

If you're referring to armies of the period, then yeah, I can see that, but normally armies would break through well prepared frontal lines because of tank tactics and heliborne assaults behind the lines, that completely flank them.

[Patchman123]

@ConstantineJoseph

Like hell it can't. You're forgetting tanks, which can go around well-prepared lines and flank them with deadly efficiency. AKA Blitzkrieg destroyed prepared front lines, even though the Russians were masters at holding off tank assaults with front lines. Still, prepared front lines are weak against modern helicopter assaults and armored assaults, which can go around them. Helicopters transport troops behind them and really have fun with them.

[ConstantineJoseph]

@FrenkieWilde Queen you mean? Its a chess term. The King on the Chess board can strike from one end to the other. The Queen is fluid like water, able to travel anywhere.

[RPenta]

@ConstantineJoseph I think the difference was the federals in Gettysburg had very heavy musket fire to bear as well as artillery.

I think Lee could have used the Light Brigade as Jeb Stuart was ineffectual.

[RPenta]

@PhinfanUK Bad Polish intelligence, eh? Ok. 

[AeroNY28]

My Grandfather was in the Yorkshire Hussars at the start of WW2 and trained in horse charge before going over to France. He could still do sword drill as an old guy but never talked much about the war as is common with his generation. But I still remember as a kid he as a man of 60 plus years screaming in the night some times with nightmares. Our generation is soft with no respect I hate what is left of the UK and it's spine less government. Why did I serve 9 years in the forces? Pride.