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The Thin Red Line described an episode of the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War. [3] In the incident, around 500 men of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders led by Sir Colin Campbell, aided by a small force of 100 walking wounded, 40 detached Guardsmen, and supported by a substantial force of Turkish infantrymen, formed a line of fire against the Russian cavalry.
The title comes from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from the collection Barrack-Room Ballads, in which Kipling describes foot soldiers as "the thin red line of 'eroes". Kipling's poem is based on the 1854 action of British soldiers during the Crimean War called The Thin Red Line (Battle of Balaclava).
The Thin Red Line, a 1986 album by Glass Tiger, or the title track "The Thin Red Line" (The Mentalist), a television episode "The Thin Red Line", 1966 episode of the British television series Gideon's Way "The Thin Red Line", a song by Saxon from the 1997 album Unleash the Beast
The Thin Red Line (1881) by Robert Gibb, depicting the 93rd Regiment of Foot of the British army fighting off Russian cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava in 1854. From British English, an entirely different figure of speech for an act of great courage against impossible order or thinly spread military unit holding firm against attack, or the "thin red line", originates from reports of a red ...
The Russians dash at the Highlanders. The ground flies beneath their horses' feet; gathering speed at every stride, they dash on towards that thin red streak topped with a line of steel. [60] The Thin Red Line by Robert Gibb. Campbell's 93rd Highlanders repel the Russian cavalry.
In an incident which became known as "The Thin Red Line", a two-deep line of around 500 red-coated Scottish infantry from the Highland Brigade – with support from around 1,000 Royal Marines and Turkish infantry along with six guns of field artillery – stood firm against a force of around 2,500 Russian cavalrymen. The incident was a small ...
The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It is the second film adaptation of the 1962 novel by James Jones , following the 1964 film .
This action was witnessed by the Times correspondent William Howard Russell, who reported that nothing stood between the Russian cavalry and the defenceless British base but the "thin red streak tipped with a line of steel of the 93rd" a description immediately paraphrased and passed into folklore as "The Thin Red Line". [6]