CHARGE TO TWINNING; Crimean War foes join forces.(News)

From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: September 23, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

THEIRS was not to reason why - theirs was to do and die.

Blundering British military chiefs sent 637 cavalrymen thundering into "the mouth of hell" during the most famous conflict of the Crimean War.

Now, almost 150 years after the Charge of the Light Brigade, a Welsh town closely linked ...

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