The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Crimean Blunder involved three men. An impatient young captain, a frustrated bullying lord, and an amiable old general. General Raglan had spent most of his long career as a number two. Well into his sixties now, he was still new to the top job. He might have been a very great administrator in peacetime. It was forty years since he'd been on a battlefield, let alone commanded any troops. The soldier knew someone had blundered but who? And why?