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Black-and-white Cubist illustration of the Charge of the Light Brigade, inspired by Picasso's Guernica. Distorted horses and British cavalrymen with raised swords surge through a chaotic battlefield of angular shapes, with artillery and smoke in the background.

Picasso’s Light Brigade

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What connects one of the most disastrous cavalry charges in British military history with one of the twentieth century’s greatest painters? The answer is 25 October. 25 October 1854 — The Charge of the Light Brigade During the Crimean War, approximately 670 British cavalrymen charged into the Valley of Death at the Battle of Balaclava. […]

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