Original British Victorian Named 17th Lancers Martingale Badge used in “The Charge of the Light Brigade” - Crimean War German Field Gear used as a Confederate acceptance

used as a Confederate acceptance mark directly in front of the butt plate tang

It bears the correct inspection stamp

The barrel is slid forward for reloading by pushing in the button on the bottom of the frame and sliding the barrel forwards with the hammer in the "half cock" position

Near Oost-Cappell the 212 Battery defended the crossroads against German tanks

December 31

Original British Victorian Named 17th Lancers Martingale Badge used in “The Charge of the Light Brigade” - Crimean War German Field Gear used as a Confederate acceptanceOriginal Item: One of a Kind. The Charge of the Light Brigade, immortalized in the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1870, was the great charge made by the British Light Cavalry during the Crimean War against the Tsar's Russian Army in 1854. The Earl of Cardigan, who misunderstood the orders he received, led his command, possibly the finest cavalry in Europe, to capture the Russian cannon in a hopeless blunder. The subject of several films, in the 1930s