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thin red line of heroes. “The Russians dashed on toward that thin-red line streak tipped with a line of steel,” wrote W. H. Russell, the greatest war correspondent of his day, in re- porting the Battle of Balaclava for the London Times. He was describing the 93rd Highland Infantry which hadn’t formed in a defensive square. Rudyard Kipling scoffed at this romantic notion in his poem “Tommy,” where his British soldier re- marks about a thin red line of ’eroes and later adds “We aren’t no thin red ’eroes.” |