The film follows the story of Joey, a thorough-bred colt born in Devon before the First World War. War Horse, Steven Spielberg’s Golden Globe-nominated film, which opened today, is based on the novel of the same name by acclaimed British children’s writer Michael Morpurgo, and on the London and Broadway plays adapted for stage by Nick Stafford. Russian commanders were reported to have initially believed that the British cavalrymen must have been drunk to attempt it. That charge, immortalized by Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s epic poem, “ The Charge of the Light Brigade,” prompted French Marshal Pierre Bosquet to state “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre” (“It is magnificent, but it is not war)” and “C’est de la folie” (It is madness”). One hundred and thirteen men died in the charge that produced no decisive gains and resulted in unacceptably high cost, with a ratio of casualties to survivors of 1.5 to 1. Accurate artillery and rapid-firing rifled small arms swept cavalry off the field at Balaclava during the ill-fated British “Charge of the Light Brigade” during the Crimean War against Russia in the mid-1850s.

Yet, decades before motorized vehicles, including tanks, appeared on the battlefield, it was clear to almost all, except it seems cavalry officers, that the era of combat horse brigades, and charges, was over. Home » Military History » War Horse War Horse Posted on DecemBy Stephen Fraterįor thousands of years, horses defined military land power, mobility, logistics and tactics.

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