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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47122)	10/21/2004 7:23:32 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre ("It is magnificent, but it is not war.") Tennyson praises the Brigade, "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!", while mourning the appalling futility of the charge: "Not tho' the soldier knew, someone had blunder'd... Charging an army, while all the world wonder'd." Charge of the Light brigade.; Light Brigade regrouped there were only 195 men still with horses. The brigade had lost 118 men killed and 127 wounded; 362 horses were killed. The stupidity of the action and its reckless bravery prompted Marshal Pierre Bosquet to state C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre ("It is magnificent, but it is not war.") Initially the Russian commanders believed the British soldiers must have been drunk and it measurably improved the reputation of British cavalry during the rest of the conflict.