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Balaklava, Battle of

European history

Balaklava also spelled Balaclava

(Oct. 25 【Oct. 13, Old Style】, 1854), indecisive military engagement of the Crimean War, best known as the inspiration of the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson's (Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron) Charge of the Light Brigade. In this battle, the Russians failed to capture Balaklava, the Black Sea supply port of the British, French, and Turkish forces in the southern Crimea; but the British lost control of their best supply road connecting Balaklava with the heights above Sevastopol (Sevastopol, Siege of), the major Russian naval centre that was under siege.

Early in the battle the Russians occupied the Fedyukhin and the Vorontsov heights, bounding a valley near Balaklava, but they were prevented from taking the town by General Sir James Scarlett's Heavy Brigade and by Sir Colin Campbell's 93rd Highlanders, who beat off two Russian cavalry advances. Lord Raglan (Raglan, FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron) and his British staff, based on the heights above Sevastopol, however, observed the Russians removing guns from the captured artillery posts on the Vorontsov heights and sent orders to the Light Brigade to disrupt them. The final order became confused, however, and the brigade, led by Lord Cardigan, swept down the valley between the heights rather than toward the isolated Russians on the heights. The battle ended with the loss of 40 percent of the Light Brigade. Tennyson's Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava, never popular, is unknown except to literary scholars.

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释义	Balaklava, Battle of European history Balaklava also spelled Balaclava (Oct. 25 【Oct. 13, Old Style】, 1854), indecisive military engagement of the Crimean War, best known as the inspiration of the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson's (Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron) Charge of the Light Brigade. In this battle, the Russians failed to capture Balaklava, the Black Sea supply port of the British, French, and Turkish forces in the southern Crimea; but the British lost control of their best supply road connecting Balaklava with the heights above Sevastopol (Sevastopol, Siege of), the major Russian naval centre that was under siege. Early in the battle the Russians occupied the Fedyukhin and the Vorontsov heights, bounding a valley near Balaklava, but they were prevented from taking the town by General Sir James Scarlett's Heavy Brigade and by Sir Colin Campbell's 93rd Highlanders, who beat off two Russian cavalry advances. Lord Raglan (Raglan, FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron) and his British staff, based on the heights above Sevastopol, however, observed the Russians removing guns from the captured artillery posts on the Vorontsov heights and sent orders to the Light Brigade to disrupt them. The final order became confused, however, and the brigade, led by Lord Cardigan, swept down the valley between the heights rather than toward the isolated Russians on the heights. The battle ended with the loss of 40 percent of the Light Brigade. Tennyson's Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava, never popular, is unknown except to literary scholars.
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