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...Lord Raglan, commander in chief in the Crimea at the age of 65, had never led troops into battle in his life. Lord Raglan's personal courage was first class. "After his right arm was amputated without an anesthetic on the field of Water loo, he called out. 'Here, don't take that arm away until I have taken the ring off the finger!' " Unfortunately, he "covered his [Crimean] staff with confusion by forgetting that the French were ... his allies and invariably talking of 'the French' when he meant 'the enemy...
When the Crimean War began, all three peers were on the verge of retirement, but each postponed the day to travel to the Crimea. Lord Raglan was determined to be as much like the great Duke of Wellington as possible. Lord Lucan was determined to rule Lord Cardigan with an iron hand. Lord Cardigan was determined to take no orders from Lord Lucan. The mess, muddle and wintry cold of the Crimea were just what Lord Lucan relished: he lived "hard" and made sure that his unfortunate men did the same. Lord Car digan, however, lived on the Black...
Brave, stupid Lord Cardigan is remembered nowadays only by the button-up woolen sweater he wore in the Crimea...
...campaign, the private soldier was regarded as a dangerous brute," but by the end, thanks largely to the terrible charge, "he was a hero. Army welfare and army education, army recreation, sports and physical training, the health services, all came into being as a result of the Crimea." Moreover, the practice of purchasing commissions was abolished. And that is why, for more reasons than were known to Tennyson, readers of this admirable history may say with...
...were captured and exiled by Sargon, King of Assyria, about 721 B.C. Assyrian records tell of a race called the "Khumri." These, according to the theory, were the Ten Tribes, who became the Greeks' Cimmerioi and the Romans' Cimbri, gave their name to such places as the Crimea, Cumberland and Cambria, and were also the Cymry (pronounced Kum-ree), who originally settled in Wales. Other branches are supposed to have become the Scythians, or Scuthae, who populated Scotland, and the Sacae, or Saxons (i.e., Isaac's sons...