Word: balaklava
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yalta, onetime fashionable resort, 1,300 fugitives fought vainly for a place on a departing steamer. At Balaklava, famed for the charge of the Light Brigade, houses toppled. At Miskhor the tower of the "Lark's Nest" (famed villa) fell from its lofty perch down the cliffs into...
Died. Dr. Charles Lloyd, 85; in Manhattan, of pneumonia. In 1854, he charged half a league onward with the Light Brigade at Balaklava, in the military bungle immortalized by Alfred Lord Tennyson...
Died: Thomas W. Shaw, 91, London, Ont. He was the last survivor of the Light Brigade, which in 1854 made the famous charge on a Russian battery at Balaklava in the Crimean War. He was wounded in the charge and nursed by Florence Nightingale...