black powder crimean war british line infantryThe thin red line! There are few more glorious military spectacles than the measured tread of Her Majestys line regiments wheeling by division the marching at their steady pace towards their enemies unflinching, unafraid, and unstoppable. If war has any glory in it at all, it can be found in the splendid turnout and resplendence of the British Army and its fabulously dressed soldiery of the Crimean War. The men of the line regiments, of which over