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 ...

This documentary recounts the heroic but ultimately senseless charge by the British Army's Light Brigade against vastly superior Russian field artillery at the Battle of Balaclava. What is most ...

Strategically, the battle was largely unsuccessful for both sides and by the end of the fighting both sets of forces had failed to make any ground. Just over 600 people from the allied powers were ...

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 ...