But it’s best remembered for just one battle, a battle that was vaunted ... they dash on towards that thin red streak topped with a line of steel.” The Highlanders fired as the Russians ...

Mr. Russell wrote that the scarlet-clad regiment — arranged in two lines rather than the usual four — looked like a “thin red streak topped with a line ... after the Battle of Balaclava ...

The courage and steadfastness of the "thin red line" at Balaclava in staying the course was celebrated by poets from Tennyson ("The Charge of the Light Brigade") to Kipling ("Tommy") and over time ...

The film, loosely adapted from the James Jones novel, deals with the Battle of Guadalcanal ... Detractors found The Thin Red Line to be rambling and self-indulgent, “with no firm idea of ...