Charge of the Light Brigade

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the cavalry. On 25 October 1854, the Light Brigade, led by Lord Cardigan, mounted a frontal assault against a Russian artillery battery which was well-prepared with excellent fields of defensive fire. The charge was the result of a misunderstood order from the commander-in-chief, Lord Raglan, who had intended the Light Brigade to attack a different objective for which light cavalry was better suited, to prevent the Russians from removing captured guns from overrun Turkish positions. The Light Brigade made its charge under withering direct fire and reached its target, scattering some of the gunners, but was forced to retreat immediately.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome.
0:10.0	Cytation Needed. Hello and welcome.
0:23.2	Citation Needed, a podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts.
0:29.7	Because this is the internet, and that's how it works now.
0:32.1	I'm Heath, and I'll be the idiot leading the charge today.
0:35.5	And I'm joined by four guys who are going to follow the idiot leading the charge.
0:40.8	Cecil, Noah, Tom, and Eli.
0:42.8	Well, you're the easiest to follow, Heath, because you're tall.
0:46.5	It's true.
0:47.2	It's very true.
0:48.5	Idiot leading the charge, I think you misspelled commander in chief.
0:52.7	That's right.
0:54.6	Thank you.
0:55.9	Okay.
0:56.7	So, Noah, what person placed thing, concept, phenomenon, or event are we going to be
1:01.3	talking about today?
1:02.4	The Charge of the Light Brigade.
1:04.9	All right.
1:05.7	And what does that evoke for you, like, mentally?
1:09.0	Right?
1:09.8	Right.
1:10.5	Good question.
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