English Balaklava battle monument

The famous Battle of Balaklava took place on October 25, 1854 . The most tragic part of it - the attack of Lord Cardigan of the Light Brigade . It became a textbook , not only in British literature. The official statistics says that before the attack began , the brigade numbered 673 .Loss of the Light Brigade in the attack amounted to 102 killed ( including 9 officers) , 129 wounded ( including 11 officers) and 58 prisoners ( including two officers ) and officers were almost all wounded. Later, 16 more people died from wounds, nine of them - in Russian captivity . Thus, a total of 118 people were killed .

In the center of the valley of Balaklava in 1856, the British erected a monument - a small obelisk of marble-like limestone with an inscription in English and Russian : \

V tsentre Balaklavskiĭ doliny v 1856 godu anglichane ustanovili pamyatnik - nebolʹshoĭ obelisk iz mramorovidnogo izvestnyaka s nadpisʹyu na angliĭskom i russkom yazykah: 'V pamyatʹ o teh, kotorye pali v Balaklavskom srazhenii 25 oktyabrya 1854 goda'.Pervyĭ raz Angliĭskiĭ pamyatnik Balaklavskomu srazheniyu rekonstruirovali v 1875 godu.During World War II monument is preserved , although it was hard for ' wounded '. In 1998 it was reconstructed again .

In 1945, Death Valley at Balaklava visited Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain . His visit was not official .

The purpose of visiting this place had a few moments of silence and bow to the place where, among many Britons killed his close relative of the Duke of Marlborough.

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