Crossword-Solution: BALAKLAVA 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

But there is a God in heaven; the British glories are tarnished--Providence has never smiled on British arms since that case--oh! Balaklava! thy name interpreted is net of fishes, and well dost thou deserve that name.

And that funny-hat prince from Korea—wouldn’t you think he could afford to amble around on a milk-white palfrey once in a dynasty or two? Nothing doing! His idea of a Balaklava charge is to tuck his skirts under him and do his mile in six days over the hog-wallows of Seoul in a bull-cart.

The fire of the English was as steady as it was quick; and though three-fourths of the crew had never smelt powder before, they proved well the truth of the old chronicler's saying (since proved again more gloriously than ever, at Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman), that “the English never fight better than in their first battle.” Thrice the Spaniards clambered on board, and thrice surged back before that deadly hail.

The loss of the Light Brigade in killed and wounded in its famous charge at Balaklava was but 37 per cent.

What are these kindlings saved when the whole house is burning? Is this what you call heroism? Yet the charge at Balaklava was not more futile.