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Anyone travelling northwards through the Sudanese city of Omdurman passes a slender, sandstone pinnacle bearing a faded inscription. This modest memorial, on the dusty verge of a busy road ...
Cavalry charge re-lived. November 2, 2007 — 1.04am. ... The survivors later formed the honour guard for the British commander, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, on his victory march into Jerusalem.
A CENTURY-old mystery behind the British Army’s most notorious cavalry charge could finally have been solved. The Charge of the Light Brigade saw 600 Brit cavalrymen embark on a near-suicidal… ...
Brigadier Brian McCall, UK defence adviser, recalls that it was the Jodhpur Lancers who carried out the British army’s last mounted cavalry charge and so helped to win the Battle of Haifa in 1918.
The Scottish cavalry flew toward Napoleon’s Grande Armee at Waterloo two centuries ago Thursday in a galloping charge immortalized in paint, poetry and film.Now the Royal Scots Greys will once ...
EXCLUSIVE: With the First World War mired in a bloody stalemate, the ex-US President came up with an incredible plan... a full-on horseback charge across No Man's Land. As a fascinating new book ...
After British troops had tried unsuccessfully for two days to outgun Turkish troops, 800 Australians of the Light Horse Brigade, whose horses had not drunk in 48 hours, were ordered on Oct. 31 ...