Toby E, who is one of my regular blog readers, has pointed out that I got the name of the exemplar battle wrong in my recent review of THE DOMINION OF OTTO VON BISMARCK, ...
... I identified the battle as the Battle of the Alma … but it was actually the Battle of Balaclava!
The Battle of the Alma ...
... and the Battle of Balaclava. Not easy to confuse ... except in the case of this writer!
Oops! As Captain Bertorelli (of ‘ALLO ‘ALLO! fame) would have said, ‘What a mistake-a to make-a!'
Bob, I must admit that I was scratching my head a bit when I read Alma! As for the battle of Balaclava what a battle and advertisement for wargaming the Crimean War! It has it all - Russian infantry overrunning Turkish emplacements, Russian cavalry advancing and being held off by "the thin red line" of Highlanders, the British Heavy Cavalry Brigade charging Russian cavalry, and of course the Charge of the Light Brigade. What more does one want?
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