@Sedan, this famous poem was written about that famous decision in Balaklava: “The charge of the light brigade”
I Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. III Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the…
www.poetryfoundation.org
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I read the poem.
Yes, the battle itself is very authentic. There's the crossfire of the cannons and the frontal attack of the Cossacks. And the horror of what happened there is very realistic.
Even the Russians appreciated the bravery of the British cavalrymen - it was very brave, because this attack was suicide in essence.
Only the Russians did not run away there, the author was a little misleading))). Betrayed romanticism, of course.
Everything there was simple, a talentless military commander sent his soldiers to the slaughter - cannon fodder.
In addition to my story, I want to tell you about who the Cossacks really are.
No, they are not those funny guys from the cartoons who play soccer.
Cossacks are professional military - they're mercenaries.
Translated into modern language, Cossacks are PMCs.
If you have the money to buy a horse and uniform, you quit your job and go to a Cossack settlement, sign up for service, for which you are paid money.
Ataman (Rus), Hetman (Ukr) were at the head of the Cossacks, Cossack settlements existed then in all the territory of then Russia. Even beyond the Urals.
This is what the Ural Cossacks looked like
Russian (Don Cossack) on the left, Ukrainian (from a cartoon) on the right
There were Cossack settlements all over the territory of present-day Russia and Ukraine
Sometimes they reached the size of a small state. But it was not a state formation, but a military formation.
Ataman or Hetman is not the president, as it is now commonly called
, but the boss of PMCs (Prigozhin).
During their history, the Cossacks from the cartoon fought for both the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. When they were part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland) they rebelled against the Polish king. But they could not defeat Poland alone, so they turned to Russia for help. Together they kicked the Poles out of their land, but with the condition that from now on they would serve Russia and stay in their settlement.
Of course Cossacks are very unruly and freedom-loving. They also revolted against Russia a few hundred years later (Prigozhin's campaign against Moscow). Pu... ugh. Katerina the Great suppressed this rebellion, for which the Cossacks still hate her.
(sorry for the associations, but it will be clearer for you to understand).
Yeah, it's been romanticized a lot over the years.
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