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:

    Few colors last; with their eternal thirst, time and light suck on them, and they bleach the black doctor’s hat until it’s grey like a dunce’s cap.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    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)