"Soon the men of the column began to see that though the scarlet line was slender, it was very rigid and exact."
— War

January 1, 1970

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Alexander William Kinglake, Invasion of the Crimea, Volume III, p. 455. "The spruce beauty of the slender red line." Kinglake—Invasion of the Crimea, Volume III, p. 248. Ed. 6.