Nice one

true that brother

+MarsFKA When has it not been thus ?

Incompetence is the worst enemy of any soldier be it from a lowly rifleman on sentry duty to the commander in chief

Something to remember is that Raglin and much of the British Army's officer corps hadn't seen action since Waterloo, and in the case of Raglin he was nothing but a glorified desk jockey, not a field officer. But at the time it was who do you pick: The Lord who had his arm shot off at Waterloo, but has never really held a field command and hasn't seen action since Waterloo, and in fact has been confined to a desk for most of his career, or the General who is a career officer, is popular with his men, has been on multiple colonial campaigns and has shown talent and initiative in command and logistical organization. They would pick the Lord who had his arm shot off at Waterloo simply because he was a Lord. Add into that Lucan and Cardigan detested each other and yet were allowed to serve as officers in the same unit (any other officer, would've checked their backgrounds and records and likely would've learned of their feud and would've seen to it that they were kept as far away from each other as possible. Hell Lucan's actions in Ireland during the Great Famine alone should've disqualified him as a commander ) and you had a ticking time bomb

That and several of the brightest officers with any capacity for offensive thinking and being most capable of fighting a war in the Crimea, were basically stationed elsewhere. Wellington did em the worse service by dying in 1852, just before this all started. He also was notorious for giving his subordinates little independent authority. The famous exchange between Uxbridge and himself about his plans for the Battle of Waterloo show it, how clearly Wellington instilled that only the most senior general knew everything. It was much the same rigid problem the Royal Navy suffered, the death of Admiral Byng just about made the Royal Navy suicidal to beat anyone who took em on, especially if they happened to be French. Sir Colin Campbell was probably the most offensive minded general of the war at least at the Brigade level, along with Scarlett and the Heavy Brigade. Sir George Brown was really the only general worth a damn at the Divisional level for the British. It became a mire from there on in. Ironically, if the war had been fought just a decade earlier, a vast majority of the generals who were Commanding troops at Waterloo at the Brigade, Divisional and even Corp level would have been available, including Wellington himself. It may have went differently then. Who knows.

He also died of stomach cancer 8 days later, so...

It's a British movie, ofcourse other countries are going to be portrayed less favourable...

Much like Ford plants in Germany producing trucks for the German Army during WW2. Profits.

Is "Wussians" authentic dialogue?

@@EchosTackyTiki it is meant to portray the inbred, learning disabled nature of a fair chunk of the British officer corps

@@EchosTackyTiki Yes, the soft 'r' sound was an aristocratic affectation.

And while you're waiting for the next attack

You'd better stand, there's no turning back!

@@JeffLMB The bugle sounds-the charge begins!

But on this battlefield, no one wins!

@@JeffLMB the smell of acrid smoke and horse's breath

Yes indeed...

011258stooie He’s not well you know 😂

the French won at the Redan redoubt

Looks like You know nothing about those events. The Crimean military actions were the only small part of list of events taken place in European part of Russia, Middle east ad Far East. The Anglo-Saxons, French, Turkey finally lost the war. The Crimean can be considered as only small battle comparable with other events. Result of all military actions are : 1/ British starts loosing control of India region because of all money had been spend to bit small Crimean (Sevastopol) Russian troops and there were no any financial possibilities to invest any money to support colony of India. 2/ Turkey and Britain lost control under castle Kars, castle Bayazet, Cities Batum, Ardagan and many other key points in the Middle east. I would say castle Kars is the key to the gates of all Caucasus region. 3/ British fleet lost the battle under Novorosiysk, Russian Empire 4/ British fleet lost the battle under Kerch , Russian Empire 5/ British feel lost the battle on the far east and lost control of all Far east region, becoming to Russian on the results of War actions, Criamea including I would say, Sevastopol (Crimean) War bind the enemy forces (Europe +Turkey) and gave to Russia to do whatever Russia intended to do around Middle east and on the Far east. Small Sevastopol troop fully stopped three States Army - French, British Empire, Turley and Sardinia. So Who lost , who win ? As to Me Russia won.

The Battle of The Alma was fought on 20th September 1854 and was a clear victory. The Charge of The Light Brigade, The Heavy Brigade, and ‘The Thin Red Line’ were all incidents from the battle of Balaclava fought over a month later on 25th October, a battle which was somewhat of a defeat and would have been unnecessary, probably, if the British/French had followed up properly after the Alma

@@user-sw2yr1rl8l Give a Russian one question and he'll answer another.

Actually by all accounts the action enhanced the reputation of the British cavalry amongst other armies. Yes it was a stupid, foolhardy action but according to reports all soldiers followed orders they most likely knew would be suicidal without any complaint or rebellion, and even though they were decimated they gave far better account of themselves than they had any right to.

@@user-sw2yr1rl8l so explain why Bessarabia was given to Moldova and your black sea fleet was disbanded in accordance with the neutralisation of the black sea due to the Paris treaty? That doesn't sound like something a winner of the war would do.

It was more about morale, phsycology and maximising firepower

Ah yes, when sick was meant in a literal way to mean something horrible, rather than cool like it means now 😂

@@rhysnichols8608 Echo of the past. And it almost feels like I typed it just yesterday.

@@Lachausis Yes it’s gone fast, do you remember typing it??

@@rhysnichols8608 Vaguely. I was on this first Charge of the Light Brigade historical/media trip, youtube was still relatively fresh, not a toxic political waste dump like it is today. I think I had recently seen the movie itself. Iron Maiden dedicated a song called 'Trooper' in memory of that cavalry charge (not shown in this clip). Good song. Metal.

The clip is from a film called "Charge of the Light Brigade", and Balaklava is featured towards the end, as the climax. Alma is part of the build-up.

Yas, Indeed,Wuassians

so what? all armies were like that back then

Not shakos at this period

monsieur, les Britanniques botté le cul partout dans le monde. Haha.

Les zouaves

Your French grammar makes absolutely no sense. It actually hurts you. If you mean, kicked ass, this isn't how you say it. I'm fluent, it's my mother tongue and you speak like a barnyard pompous palfrenier.

add to it the desire to keep the Russian Black Sea Fleet from having free passage into the Mediterranean

66thEarl of Warwick - English stuffed shirts, half of the Leaders or Generals had NO IDEA how to run platoons/brigades. The low life did all the warring and the Generals got the Medals and got big Houses or palace such as Blemin. and it would be no different today, God forbid.

Brighton camp

Having said all that it one may observe, in mitigation, that the French and British were better dressed than the Russians and marched into battle with better music.

When was this?

@@spen6334 1917-1918

The Black Watch and Gordon Highlander's.