Light Brigade

Light Brigade is a term made famous by the Charge of the Light Brigade, but is also used in various military contexts:

  • A Light infantry brigade
  • A Light cavalry brigade
  • A brigade within the Light Division
  • The British Army light infantry brigade formed during the Napoleonic Wars with the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot, the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot and the 95th Rifles


Light Brigade is also a clipper ship originally named the Ocean Telegraph:

  • Ocean Telegraph / Light Brigade (clipper)

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or brigade:

    “Serene stands the little captain,
    He is not hurried, his voice is neither high nor low,
    His eyes give more light to us than our battle-lanterns.

    Toward twelve there in the beams of the moon they surrender to us.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “[John] Brough’s majority is “glorious to behold.” It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)