Join us for our September talk when Brian Fare will be talking about the Crimean War and its connections to Melton Mowbray.
The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an alliance made up of armies from the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.
The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava was memorialised in the famous poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”.
The famous leader of the Light Brigade was the Earl of Cardigan who when not living at his country home at Deene Park in Northamptonshire lived in a house on Burton Road in Melton Mowbray.
Not only will this talk cover Cardigan and his connections to Melton, but we will also look at other connections that Melton has to this 19th century war.