Re: Foolish
What about Raglan at Balaclava?
The orders may have been spectacularly carried out by the light brigade but that doesn't mean they should have been given, or they should have been clearer about which guns he mean't.
Or maybe Cardigan was to blame for following the orders.
Either way someone was pretty damn foolish.
Re: Foolish
No, the Cardigan mis-interpreted the orders, because of bad grammar.
The orders were intended to move the Light Brigade down one valley, but Cardigan rode down the Valley of Death, because of bad grammar, and not pointing out which guns to go to.
It was not theirs to reason why,
It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
-The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
-Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny
"For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
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