Word: balaklava
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the philosophy of the 19th century British Army pervades Harvard. Lord Kitchener used to say that "we lose every battle but the last." Maybe Harvard plays that way, too, and runs through gallant Balaklava and ineffective Ladysmiths to win all glory in the Yale Game...
Wilson was born into a distinguished Suffolk family. One ancestor, Lord Raglan, commanded British forces in the Crimean War; another, Lord Cardigan, led the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava; an uncle, General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson, had a corps at Salonika in World...
...17th/21st Lancers, ancient cavalry converted from well-curried horses to stinking machines, from lances and sabers to clanking General Shermans. The famous 17th was founded in memory of Wolfe's death at Quebec. They were the original "Horse Marines." They charged with the Light Brigade at Balaklava and lost 76% of their number. The 17th Lancers and 21st Lancers were amalgamated in 1922, and they lost their horses in 1938. Their badge is a death's head, their motto is "Or Glory," and they call themselves "the tots," from der Tod, German for death...
...further resistance is useless, but they won't come out. . . ." So it was at every fort and pillbox, on all the stinking, bloody hills around Sevastopol, where the dead rotted in the sun and there were always more Germans and Rumanians to be killed. So it was at Balaklava, eight miles south of the city, where the Rumanians astounded the world, charging and charging again until they took the town. So it was in the British Cemetery, now a battleground, where lay Tennyson's Six Hundred and thousands of other Britons who died, unrhymed, during the siege...
...warships in Europe could anchor, a holy "Common Grave" near by. That grave holds the dust of 127,000 Russians who died at Sevastopol in 1854-55, when Britain and her allies in the Crimean War besieged the city. Nine miles south of Sevastopol is the town of Balaklava, where the Light Brigade's 600 rode against the Russian batteries. Last week many times 600 Nazis died near Balaklava, but the Russians called their defensive maze of gunpits and tank traps nothing so poetic as "the valley of death." They called it "the meat grinder." Jaws of the grinder...