{"id":79213,"date":"2024-10-25T03:33:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=79213"},"modified":"2024-10-25T03:33:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:33:57","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-october-25-1854","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/on-this-day-in-history-october-25-1854\/","title":{"rendered":"On this Day in History, October 25, 1854"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79214 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB3-1024x621.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB3-1024x621.png 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB3-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB3-768x466.png 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB3-850x516.png 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB3.png 1098w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oldafsarge.blogspot.com\/2024\/10\/someone-had-blundered.html\">The Charge of the Light Brigade<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Throughout the history of warfare there are recorded instances of events taking place for which no good reason can be offered. At the Battle of Balaclava, on the 25th of October 1854, during the Crimean War, such an incident took place. An incident which inspired a great poem by Britain&#8217;s poet laureate, Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson, a number of films (some good, some not so good) and one book in the\u00a0<i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flashman_at_the_Charge\">Flashman<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/i>series written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_MacDonald_Fraser\"><b>George MacDonald Fraser<\/b><\/a>.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oldafsarge.blogspot.com\/2024\/10\/someone-had-blundered.html\">RTWT at Chant&#8217; Du Part<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-79216 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB4-1024x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB4-1024x507.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB4-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB4-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB4-850x421.jpg 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LB4.jpg 1098w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charge of the Light Brigade &nbsp; Throughout the history of warfare there are recorded instances of events taking place for which no good reason can be offered. At the Battle of Balaclava, on the 25th of October 1854, during the Crimean War, such an incident took place. An incident which inspired a great poem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,478,479,1286,9995],"tags":[12275,763,9606,18139],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79219,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79213\/revisions\/79219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}