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This is the essence of the light attack mission, a capability the U.S. military all but gave up two decades ago. Light attack aircraft are today in demand, but none fly for U.S. forces—yet.
And in the incredible debacle of the Light Brigade at remote Sebastopol, the inhumanity of mid-Victorian England was sharply illuminated. This last idea is the uncontroversial theme of Tony ...
In the fading evening light of March 15, 1938, my mother, father, and I were sitting in the living room, listening to the radio. Suddenly, the program was interrupted by a dramatic message—and ...
James Thomas Brudenell was the 7th Earl of Cardigan, an officer in the British Army who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, leading its charge at the Battle of Balaclava.
This satirical account of wartime Victorian England elicits brilliant performances by John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave in a tale of the contrasts between aristocracy and the squalor of the lower ...
TESTAMENT: We're talking about 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson and 'Poppies' by Jane Weir. Victorian poet Tennyson wrote 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' in 1854 ...
Into the Valley of Death rode the 600 as the story is told through Tennyson's poem. The Charge of the Light Brigade was a colossal error of mistaken orders, carried ...
Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. When the regiment is on maneuver, the barracks are attacked by Surat Khan and his soldiers who massacre British women and children.
TESTAMENT: We're talking about 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson and 'Poppies' by Jane Weir. Victorian poet Tennyson wrote 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' in 1854 ...
Ahah, caught you that time; you probably thought the Light Brigade charged the Russians in the fated attack at Balaclava. Actually you're partly correct, but for the whole story we must go back ...
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India ...
Errol Flynn (The Adventures of Robin Hood) and Patric Knowles (Auntie Mame, The Wolf Man) star in this Oscar-winning film about two brothers whose love for the same woman at a perilous Foreign Legion ...