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Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's's here too, just cracking us up. And this

is stuff you should know. That's right. Kind of a rare, detailed war battle episode. Yeah, we don't

do a lot of war stuff. Yeah, a little bit here and there. A little here or there, yeah. But usually

it's like some crazy commando story like, You're right. You know, and usually where the Nazis are getting beat up, because we love that narrative. Yeah, we usually don't like say, hey, let's dive into some specific battles of the Crimean War. Right. But for all of you fans of the Crimean War who didn't look at the title, you're like,

oh, I know what this one's about. Of course, it's about the Charge of the Light Brigade.

And if you were an English student, sorry, an English student, and you studied poetry,

you're probably familiar with the poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred

Cama Lord Tennyson.

I think you're supposed to say the comma out loud from what I understand.

Yeah, like the colon.

But that was a real deal.

That really happened.

And it's a really complicated, complex story that's also extremely fascinating and totally nuts at the end.

Yeah. So I guess we should probably set up a little bit about just what the Crimean War was.

Yeah.

Yeah. So the Crimean War was over the course of a few years from 1853 to 56. It was in Europe, fought between Russia and Britain, France, and

Turkey, which was part of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey was, that is. And it was known for a lot of things.

There were some, you know, interesting people that came out of this, ended up being super famous.

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