"C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre."
— Crimean War

January 1, 1970

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185318551854Wars and battlesMilitary history of Russia
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French General Pierre Bosquet, on the charge of the British Light Brigade at Balaclava, 25 October 1854; reported by Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Reason Why (1953), ch. 12