The Thin Red Line...

[steve_vernon]

In the Crimean War a great few stood against a great many as an undermanned division of Highlanders stood against the Turks, the Tartars and the Cossacks in a long thin red line. Some historians believe that it was only the fear that this red line was nothing more than a diversionary tactic by the British Highlanders that prevented the enemy from

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[jsridler]

The Crimean War was also where a Canadian earned his first Victoria Cross:

"The first Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross was Alexander Roberts Dunn after his heroic deeds during the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854." Apparently, he used a sword to kill some of the Russians. Went on to fight in British wars of Empire and is buried in Ethiopia. And some say our history is dull!

JSR

[steve_vernon]

We have a monument to that war, here in Halifax.

http://ns1763.ca/hfxrm/crimeamon.html

Rumor has it that the statue of the lion was originally fully equipped but the protests of certain socialites required the services of a stone carver who discretely neutered said stone beast.

Ouch.

[jsridler]

Yowzas!

JSR