Looking forward to the Staff Officers and Colonels
I already have a small Crimean collection, alas Foundry and will have to be picky and choosy, but I do like what I have seen so far, and look forward to more of this range becoming available.
One thing the allies did not have throughout the campaign, was buckets of cavalry, and Raglan was probably correct to put them in a protected "band box" to conserve them to start with.
As to cavalry, the Allies only had the Light Brigade and some Turks available at the Alma. The French cavalry and Heavy Brigade still being at Varna and Constantinople at this point.
The Heavy Brigade did not materialise until after the Alma. The French Chasseurs were responsible for covering the retreat of the remanants of the Light Brigade after their charge at Balaclava, and performed very well.
The Turks had little in the way of cavalry in the theatre, and this hindered their usage in field operations outwith the immediate vicinity of Sevastopal. Good garrison troops though and in Naval landings/expeditions to Kerch etc. :shock
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"There is no retreat from here, men," Campbell told them as he rode down the line, "you must die where you stand."