![]() The Battle of Little Bighorn was one filled with negligence. It was also the influence for the above Iron Maiden song - The Trooper. The failed military action was so epic that it inspired the iconic poem of the same name by Lord Tennyson only mere weeks afterward. Some 200 of 600+ men were left alive with horses in tow after this. The remaining men were forced to retreat shortly thereafter. Despite many of them dying, they did briefly pierce enemy lines, scattering enemy gunners in the process. ![]() Surrounded on three sides by cannons, these men valiantly carried out their orders. The order they actually received commanded them to run headlong into an established gun battery. ![]() However, this was not the order they received. Cavalry are fast and the enemy would be caught flat footed. This was well suited for a brigade of cavalry. Lord Raglan, the leader over the whole battle, sent orders for the brigade to intercept Russian troops that were trying to take guns from an overrun position. This second tale, from the same battle, is considered one of the most epic fails in British Military history. Whatever the case, the Thin Red Line saved the day. The men only got the chance to fire volleys at 600, 350 and 150 yards respectively before the Russian commander had his men retreat, assuming that such a small force must be a diversion distracting them from a much larger force behind them. It is said that the Allied commander Colin Campbell had such a low opinion of the Russian cavalry that he decided not have his men line up 4 deep, as per tradition. A line of soldiers only 2 men deep is all that stood between a Russian brigade of cavalry and Balaclava. This battle is famous- amongst history buffs- for a couple particular moments. It saw the Allied forces (British, French, and Ottoman Empires) defending the port from the Russians. ![]() The Battle of Balaclava took place on October 25, 1854, during the Crimean War near the port of Balaclava. I’d like to see the rig that can run that number of troops in Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator. Each side was said to have lost no less than 200,000 troops, but possibly as many as 400,000. Over the course of all the battles involved in the Third Battle of Ypres, ~1.7 million Allied forces were said to have been involved while ~2.6 million German forces were. This eventually led to significant losses for the Allied forces, totaling almost 13,000 dead, 845 of whom were said to have been killed or wounded in the muddy no man's land. In fact, many guns were said to be left at their old positions and merely fired off at the border of their range. Bad weather conditions made it hard to navigate troops and almost impossible to relocate artillery. Corrections were made too little too late. In this case, some Allied leaders believed that a major advance toward Passchendaele was taking place. This excursion begins what is a trend throughout much of this list in that miscommunication causes great harm. Soldiers struggle to move artillery guns in the thick mud. That's history for you.)Įither way, the First Battle took place around the village of Passchendaele in western Belgium during World War 1 on October 12, 1917, between the Allied (mostly British) forces and the German. (It was also called the Third Battle of Ypres. The First Battle of Passchendaele is actually a little misleading because it was just one battle within the larger Battle of Passchendaele campaign, which lasted from July 31 to November 6, 1917.
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