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- This is the drill used throughout the Crimean War including when the 93rd Highlanders stood their ground in line against the onslaught of Russian cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava. Born from that brave act was the phase "the thin red line" (originally the "thin red streak" coined by The Times journalist William Howard Russell).
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The Thin Red Line described an episode of the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War. In the incident, around 500 men of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders led by Sir Colin Campbell , aided by a small force of 100 walking wounded , 40 detached Guardsmen, and supported by a substantial force of Turkish infantrymen, formed a ...
Jan 11, 2011 · The 93rd Highlanders and the ‘Thin Red Line’. January 11, 2011. 2 mins read. In November 1854, The Times war correspondent William Russell, writing from the Crimea, reported that an attack by Russian cavalry had been repulsed, having come up against a piece of ‘Gaelic rock… a thin red streak topped up with a line of steel’ – a ...
This heroic defense was venerated by the British press as the “thin red line,” which was an abbreviated version of a description by war correspondent William Russell (“a thin red streak topped with a line of steel”).
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The Battle of Balaklava took place during the Crimean War (1854-56) on 25 October 1854. It witnessed one of the most famous acts of battlefield bravery, the Thin Red Line, and one of the most infamous blunders in military history, the Charge of the Light Brigade.
The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an Allied attempt to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia 's principal naval base on the Black Sea.
The Thin Red Line at the Battle of Balaclava: As the force of Russian cavalry came over the lip of the Causeway Heights, before engaging the Heavy Brigade, a force of four squadrons detached from the main body and headed directly towards Balaclava.
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