The Reason why"The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Anglo-French-Turkish campaign to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia's principal naval base on the Black Sea....However, a final Allied cavalry charge, stemming from a misinterpreted order from Raglan, led to one of the most famous and ill-fated events in British military history ? the Charge of the Light Brigade."--Wikipedia. |
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| Title | The Reason why George & Elizabeth Coggill Collection |
| Author | Cecil Woodham Smith |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 21, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0070716706, 9780070716704 |
| Length | 287 pages |
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