Lucan Islands

Lucan Islands (50˚50'00" 127˚38'00" W side of Balaklava I, Browning Passage, off N end of Vancouver I). After British officer George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800–88), who was cavalry cdr during the Crimean War and became famous for his role in the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade. In this action the light cavalry, under the command of the Earl of Cardigan, Lucan’s brother-in-law, made a disastrous attack on a strong Russian artillery position and was decimated. There was much...

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