This sword belonged to Mr John Ashley Kilvert and was used by him during the Crimean War. His regiment ... the Light Brigade on October 25th 1854 at Balaclava. He was wounded at the battle ...

also laid a wreath at a memorial to the British dead of the Crimean War which lasted from 1854 to 1856. Earlier, Lord Cardigan had ridden into the north Valley of Balaclava and laid a wreath at a ...

mouth and nose or face to be exposed – is named after the Battle of Balaclava, where they were first worn. The battle of 1854 was part of the Siege of Sebastopol, during the Crimean War ...

For the poet laureate, the gallant but futile attack at Balaclava was a testimony to ... Britain entered the Crimean War on the side of Turkey, largely to defend its own imperialistic interests ...

Thanks alone to one corner of the Crimean peninsula, October 25th, 1854 was what journalists called a busy news day. Its main headline grabber was the spectacularly disastrous Charge of the Light ...