Balaklava

Crimean War. October 25, 1854. The British Light Brigade led by Lord Bingham, Earl of Lucan, charges straight into the blazing mouth of the Russian artillery. It's a mad feat, and just a few of the British soldiers come back alive. It's the famous “Charge of the Light Brigade”, or Charge of the Six Hundred in Balaklava, a military disaster that historians know very well… Born out of the ineptitude and arrogance of the British commanding officers – as well as the personal dislikes between them – the bloody event also conceals a dark, secret truth that historians have never been able to glimpse…