Balaklava

bal-a-kla'va, a small fishing port in the Crimea, eight miles southeast of Sebastopol. A small British army had effected a landing here and was attacked by a superior Russian force, October 25, 1854. The Russians were beaten off and held at bay. The "charge of the light brigade" celebrated by Tennyson was a most unfortunate but brilliant incident of the day. "Somebody blundered," but in obedience to the command, six hundred men cut their way to the Russian guns, seeing plainly that they were literally riding "into the jaws of death." One hundred and fifty survived the memorable charge. See Sebastopol; Crimea