Quote Originally Posted by SergeantFirstClass View Post
I have a print of this in my home. It's also my home bar area. This is the print called the "Thin Red Line"


Oddly, later in the day after this action took place (Seaforth Highlanders under Captain Colin Campbell), the charge of the Light Brigade happened. This was the highlight of the day.....Battle of Balaclava.
It wasn't the Seaforths, though...it was the 93rd (Argylls). A correspondent for the Times reported that the Argylls stood like a "thin red streak tipped with a line of steel" against the Russian cavalry at Balaklava. The phrase has been shortened in popular culture to "The Thin Red Line" and the great Kenneth Alford, bandmaster for both the Argylls and the Royal Marines, as well as the author of the world-famous "Colonel Bogey" march from The Bridge on the River Kwai wrote a march with that same name.

And I believe Sir Colin was a general, not a captain.

http://www.aboutscotland.com/argylls/93bala.html

Cheers,

Todd