William Howard Russell quote: They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with...

They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.

William Howard Russell

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On the Russians charging the British, in 'The British Expedition to the Crimea' (1877) p. 156. Russell's original dispatch to The Times, 25 October 1854, printed 14 November 1854 read: 'That thin red streak tipped with a line of steel'

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