Limited Edition Signed and Numbered Giclee Print

Edition of 50

Size Framed: 870mm x 715mm

Additional notes:

This picture depicts the sitter reliving the moment of missed glory when perhaps 30 years earlier during the Crimean War, he was responsible for delivering the infamously vague order at the Battle of Balaclava for the British cavalry to charge the Russian guns, resulting in one of the most dramatic disasters in British Military history.

Lord Lucan received the order and asked our eponymous hero as to which guns were meant, our 'hero' replied "'There are your guns sir," and further added to the confusion by gesticulating vaguely in the direction of the bedded in Russian artillery, which was not the intended target.  

Although  almost certain death was inevitable, British honour would not allow the orders to be questioned further, and the British cavalry led by Lord Cardigan charged irregardless resulting in huge casualties and the failure to gain any military advantage whatsoever.

It should be noted that our hero took no part in the ensuing battle, and after delivering those ill fated lines, rode off in the opposite direction to the safety of the rear of the British lines...

The title of the picture comes from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'