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 related to light brigade:

    Half a league, half a league,
    Half a league onward,
    All in the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
    ‘Forward the Light Brigade!
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)