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[W T Allison II]

What two new occupations were created during the Crimean War and who were the first so employed?

 

[Grognard]

War correspondent: Robert Fenton
Nurse: Russian Dasha Sevastopolskaya and English Florence Nightingale

 

[W T Allison II]

War correspondent: Robert Fenton
Nurse: Russian Dasha Sevastopolskaya and English Florence Nightingale

You are correct.

 

[W T Allison II]

War correspondent: Robert Fenton
Nurse: Russian Dasha Sevastopolskaya and English Florence Nightingale

Here is a Fenton photo of the "Valley of Death" before the cannon balls were collected. It is now a vineyard.

 

[4th Hussar]

I can easily see why it is called the valley of death

 

[trooper]

Although the Fenton photograph is entitled "The Valley of Death" it should not be confused with the phrase from Tennyson's poem. it does not show the ground over which the Light Brigade charged but is in fact a dangerous position approaching the heights of Sebastopol which was under constant bombardment as it was a supply route to the British trenches. It was named the "Valley of Death" by those who traversed it and Tennyson's use of the phrase was pure coincidence.

 

[W T Allison II]

Although the Fenton photograph is entitled "The Valley of Death" it should not be confused with the phrase from Tennyson's poem. it does not show the ground over which the Light Brigade charged but is in fact a dangerous position approaching the heights of Sebastopol which was under constant bombardment as it was a supply route to the British trenches. It was named the "Valley of Death" by those who traversed it and Tennyson's use of the phrase was pure coincidence.

Your information makes more sense. I had read where Fenton named this photo "The Shadow of the Valley of Death" and some thought he had confused the name with"Valley of Death." In any event the number of cannon balls would have made it a deadly traverse.

 

[trooper]

These are the only photos that I know of which show the actual ground over which the Light Brigade charged. The first shows a cavalryman's view as he charged towards the Don Cossack battery which would have been lined up across the valley. The second is from the Causeway Heights looking north. The charge would have swept down the valley from left to right.

 

[lancer]

These are the only photos that I know of which show the actual ground over which the Light Brigade charged. The first shows a cavalryman's view as he charged towards the Don Cossack battery which would have been lined up across the valley. The second is from the Causeway Heights looking north. The charge would have swept down the valley from left to right.

Now that is what I call open country. No wonder that the charge was doomed, aside from tactical mistakes. That is a lot of ground to cover without support, surprise or concealment. -- Al

 

[W T Allison II]

These are the only photos that I know of which show the actual ground over which the Light Brigade charged. The first shows a cavalryman's view as he charged towards the Don Cossack battery which would have been lined up across the valley. The second is from the Causeway Heights looking north. The charge would have swept down the valley from left to right.

Thank you for posting these photos. It is a wonder that any survived at all.

 

[4th Hussar]

Now that is what I call open country. No wonder that the charge was doomed, aside from tactical mistakes. That is a lot of ground to cover without support, surprise or concealment. -- Al

That is a lot of country for a loaded horse to cover at the charge, I doubt that those that reached the guns were very frisky

 

[trooper]

That is a lot of country for a loaded horse to cover at the charge, I doubt that those that reached the guns were very frisky

Most of the distance was undertaken at the trot, then at the canter and the full gallop charge only over the last 100 yards or so. This was standard practice so that the maximum weight of men hit the target simultaneously. All the personal accounts of the participants say that the shouted orders dwindled until the only orders were "Close up to the centre" as men and horses went down and created gaps. Hard times and hard men. I]