Balaklava
Americannoun
noun
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The attacks were over the harbour of Sevastopol and the city's Balaklava and Khersones districts, Razvozhaev said earlier.
From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2023
"The Battalion were saddened to hear of the tragic passing of former Balaklava Cadet CSM Connor Morrison," the unit said on Facebook.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2022
Others say it was meant to commemorate the Battle of Balaklava of the Crimean War, immortalized in the poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
At the Balaklava offices of the Ukrainian coast guard and border police, the Russian troop trucks that effectively besieged it on Saturday were gone.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2014
The brigade and its leader distinguished themselves very greatly at the Alma; and with his “thin red line” of Highlanders he repulsed the Russian attack on Balaklava.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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