{"id":47439,"date":"2017-10-24T09:27:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T13:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=47439"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:10","slug":"armstrong-could-the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-have-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/10\/armstrong-could-the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-have-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Could the Charge of the Light Brigade have worked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, an associate professor of operations research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/could-the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-have-worked-82801?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2023%202017&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2023%202017+CID_7d74ac20a2b1a0b14ae270102c79052e&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Could%20the%20Charge%20of%20the%20Light%20Brigade%20have%20worked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0looking back at the Crimean War and the Charge of the Light Brigade.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Middle East tensions. Russian soldiers in Crimea. Western nations\u2019 warships in the Black Sea. Those descriptions sound like Russia\u2019s 2014\u00a0takeover of Crimea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But they also applied 150 years earlier during The Crimean War between Russia and a British-French-Turkish alliance. That war is largely forgotten now, apart from its famous nurse\u00a0Florence Nightingale.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, another of its features also remains in our memories:\u00a0The Charge of the Light Brigade. That was a small engagement that ended the inconclusive\u00a0Battle of Balaclava\u00a0on Oct. 25, 1854. But it became infamous for its brave soldiers, incompetent leaders and senseless bloodshed. It quickly inspired a\u00a0magnificent poem\u00a0by Lord Tennyson and later a\u00a0colourful movie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/could-the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-have-worked-82801?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2023%202017&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2023%202017+CID_7d74ac20a2b1a0b14ae270102c79052e&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Could%20the%20Charge%20of%20the%20Light%20Brigade%20have%20worked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, an associate professor of operations research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation\u00a0looking back at the Crimean War and the Charge of the Light Brigade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,6],"tags":[594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47440,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47439\/revisions\/47440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}