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:
“There yet remains but one concluding tale,
And then this chronicle of mine is ended—
Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me,
A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord
Put me to witness much for many years
And educate me in the love of books.
One day some indefatigable monk
Will find my conscientious, unsigned work;
Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp
And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust,
He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.”
—Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)
“Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)