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    The Thin Red Line described an episode of the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War. In the incident, around 500 men of the 93rd...
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  • painting of the Battle of Balaclava by Robert Gibb The Thin Red Line (novel), a 1962 novel by James Jones The Thin Red Line (1964 film), a film by Andrew...
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  • The Thin Red Line is American author James Jones's fourth novel. It draws heavily on Jones's experiences at the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping...
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    The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an Allied attempt to capture...
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  • soldiers "the thin red line of heroes", referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War. The film marked Malick's...
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    of Balaclava on 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War. In an incident which became known as "The Thin Red Line", a two-deep line of around 500 red-coated...
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    in the U.S., particularly after the Unite the Right rally in 2017. The term is adapted from The Thin Red Line, an incident of the 1854 Battle of Balaclava...
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    Canada portal The Thin Red Line (Battle of Balaclava) Concise Oxford Dictionary 1982, p. 868, ISBN 0-19-861131-5 Abbé MacGeoghegan, History of Ireland, Ancient...
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  • of a red-coated Scottish regiment at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. A journalist described a "thin red streak tipped with a line of steel"...
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  • a red shirt at her execution, to proclaim that she was an innocent martyr.: 32  The Thin Red Line was a famous incident in the Battle of Balaclava (1854)...
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    November, the battles of Balaclava and Inkerman took place beyond the siege lines. Balaclava gave the Russians a morale boost and convinced them that the Allied...
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    Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India)
    command the Highland Brigade at the Battle of Alma and with his "thin red line of Highlanders" he repulsed the Russian attack on Balaclava during the Crimean...
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    The Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942) was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of...
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  • de Lacy Evans Sir Colin Campbell – Commander of The Thin Red Line at the Battle of Balaclava; one of the few military commanders for whom Flashman has...
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  • defences. The Russian Army sent a large force to attack Balaklava, precipitating the Battle of Balaclava. The Russian threat was countered in part by the charge...
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    Highlanders, only to be turned back by the "thin red streak tipped with a line of steel". Leading men into battle for the first time ever, Scarlett ordered...
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    John Millin Selby, The thin red line of Balaclava (London: Hamilton, 1970) Sweetman, John (1990), Balaclava 1854: The charge of the light brigade, Osprey...
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    in the 19th century was a village on the Crimean peninsula, in Ukraine, about one mile north of Balaklava. The Battle of Balaclava (also known as the Battle...
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    Glengarry (category Royal Regiment of Scotland)
    Sutherland Highlanders at the Battle of Balaclava immortalized as the Thin Red Line.[citation needed] Between 1868 and 1897, the Glengarry was also worn...
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    William Howard Russell (category British people of the Crimean War)
    at Balaclava, writing that "[The Russians] dash on towards that thin red streak topped with a line of steel...". Following Russell's reports of the appalling...
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    Louis Nolan (category British Army personnel of the Crimean War)
    encountered The Thin Red Line and were driven off, while the second fork, crossing the heights above the plain, encountered four regiments of the Heavy Brigade...
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    the "thin red streak tipped with a line of steel of the 93rd" a description immediately paraphrased and passed into folklore as "The Thin Red Line". Later...
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    chances meeting the Zulu army in the open with their normal line of battle such as the 'Thin Red Line' like that employed at Balaclava. Their advance would...
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  • when at the Battle of Balaclava, a Russian raiding party captures an improperly defended British fortification, carrying away several pieces of artillery...
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    Robert Gibb's 1881 painting, The Thin Red Line, depicting The Thin Red Line at the Battle of Balaclava (1854), when a line of the Scottish Highland infantry...
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    George Stewart (VC) (category Recipients of the Order of the Medjidie)
    25 October, where the 93rd alone formed the now famous 'Thin Red Line' which, unsupported, repulsed the charge of a large body of the enemy's cavalry,...
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  • Political and diplomatic history of the Victorian era refers to politics in the United Kingdom and British Empire during the reign of Queen Victoria, 1837-1901...
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  • 4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (category British military units and formations of the Crimean War)
    Russia on the other. It saw action in the Battle of Alma the Battle of Inkerman and the Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 (famous for the Charge...
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  • Somerset M. Wiseman Clarke (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    the 'thin red line' at the Battle of Balaclava (25 October 1854), and he later served during the Indian Mutiny, including at the Relief of Lucknow. He...
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  • 1976) The Art of Siege (quadrigame, 1979) Atlantic Wall (1978) Austerlitz (1973) Balaclava (Crimean War quadrigame, 1978) BAOR: The Thin Red Line in the 1980s...
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