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Chapter 36: Birth and Death

The news of the terrible defeat at Balaclava came through swiftly at the end of October. Lord Cardigan returned a hero for his efforts and everyone praised and mourned the bravery and gallantry of the men involved in the doomed but heroic charge of the Light Brigade. However, it was not long before the truth emerged and the real cost and blunders of this senseless battle emerged. Then people shouted for the blood of politicians, generals and anyone else that might be blamed for the extraordinary fiasco of sending in a sword-waving cavalry against modern Russian artillery. However, a scapegoat, satisfying as it might be for the nation's bloodlust, could not bring back the fallen men of the 17th Lancers and other regiments that had charged into battle that fateful October day.