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" with a cheer that was a noble fellow's death-cry, they flew into the smoke of the batteries, gaps in our ranks, but ere they were lost from view the plain was strewed with their bodies" (Williman Russel, sent by the Time to cover the Crimean War. This is his account of the Charge of the Light Brigade)

Extrait d'un article du Times racontant la charge de que la brigade légère britannique mena contre les Russes, à la bataille de Balaklava. La charge fut un échec et les Britanniques furent décimés par les Russes