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slug: six-hundred-and-seven
passed: 2026-11-02
by: ccr-81332fb3-8nrbtu wave, one independent agent on oversight/claims-pass.md (pre-deploy; reader check on local copies with AW_DIR; every source-record entry read against its kept copy and live source)
checked: 157
confirmed: 128
wrong: 0
unverifiable: 0
observed: 29
stale: 0
---
# Claims pass: Six Hundred and Seven

Live page: not deployed yet; step 2 skipped.

Reader check (pre-deploy, local copies): `AW_DIR=<dir holding only index.html, engine.mjs, data.json, quotes.json copied from public/strata/six-hundred-and-seven/> node verify-six-hundred-and-seven.mjs` (run from a second empty directory holding only the verifier): exit 0, 488 passed, 0 failed (inside the repository: 579 passed, 0 failed; `--mutate`: 6 failed, exit 1, as it should). Step 6: in a scratch copy, the sentence "Its five Light Brigade rows add up to 157 killed of all ranks" changed to 167 made the verifier fail (exit 1, 486 passed, 2 failed: the sentence check and the residual sweep); changing only the visible dek's 198 to 189 also failed (3 checks: summary, meta copies, JSON-LD). The page prints no transcript of the verifier's own output. Mutation sweep: `six-hundred-and-seven: 510 mutated, 510 caught, 0 survived (text 0, meta 0, year 0)`.

Fix round 2 (2026-11-02, the fixer, after re-reading each source): the three MINOR findings below were re-checked against the live sources (the Gazette 21628 data.pdf text layers for pp. 3506, 3507, 3508, 3510 and 3511; chargeofthelightbrigade.com/index3.html; nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-balaklava) and all three held; each is fixed at source. The claim lines below keep the pass's own words and verdicts, so three of them quote wording the page no longer carries. After the fixes: `node verify-six-hundred-and-seven.mjs` 579 passed, 0 failed (from an empty directory with AW_DIR: 488 passed, 0 failed; with house blocks, beacon, pulse and assay script appended: 488 passed, and a planted 167 still fails it); `--mutate` exit 1, 6 failed; mutation sweep `six-hundred-and-seven: 510 mutated, 510 caught, 0 survived (text 0, meta 0, year 0)`.

`assay/sources.mjs six-hundred-and-seven --online`: 24 FOUND, 51 UNREADABLE, 24 NOT FOUND, 35 in the repository, 12 PARTIAL. Every UNREADABLE, NOT FOUND and PARTIAL entry was read by eye from the source itself on 2026-11-02: the Gazette PDFs (pp. 3455 to 3459 and 3503 to 3511) rendered at 220 dpi; the Daily National Intelligencer through the LOC IIIF image server (loc.gov resource pages answer 403; the issue's image 0399 carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854, so 0400 is p. 2); the memoir from archive.org page image n426 and both volumes' text layers (the djvu download answered 200 this time); The Examiner of 9 December and 18 November from the archive.org PDFs; Calthorpe, Russell and Kinglake from archive.org page images. The NOT FOUNDs are all OCR damage (the Examiner and Calthorpe text layers) or excerpts taken from images (bookplate, title pages) or from an HTML table (Wikipedia); none is a missing passage. Every 17 November list was counted a third time, name by name, from fresh renders and agrees with data.json, the kept transcription and the scout's count.

## Claims
- CONFIRMED | Balaklava, 25 October 1854 | https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-balaklava | NAM: "The Battle of Balaklava took place during the Crimean War (1854-56) on 25 October 1854." (fetched 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | The first printing of Tennyson's poem, in The Examiner of 9 December 1854, carries a footnote | https://archive.org/download/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft_djvu.txt | Memoir vol. I bibliography (text layer, fetched 2026-11-02): "1854.- CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, published in the Examiner, Dec. 9th, 1854, then printed for the soldiers"; the footnote seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | the Times correspondent's first report gave “only 607 sabres” | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | Footnote reads "where only 607 sabres are mentioned as having taken part in the charge"; seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | * Written after reading the first report of the Times' correspondent, where only 607 sabres are mentioned as having taken part in the charge. | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | Word for word, Times in italic, seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | The Examiner, No 2,445, Saturday 9 December 1854, page 780, at the foot of the column that holds the poem. | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | Masthead "No 2,445.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1854. [PRICE 6d."; running head "780 THE EXAMINER. [December 9,"; the footnote sits at the foot of the first column, which holds the poem; seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | The poem was first printed in The Examiner on Saturday 9 December 1854, on page 780, signed A. T. | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | "Noble six hundred!" then "A. T." at the right; seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Its title, THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.*, carries an asterisk | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | "THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.*" seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- OBSERVED | The footnote is not signed, and none of our sources says whether Tennyson wrote it or the paper added it; his son's memoir, which dates the poem, never mentions the 607. | recreated: grep -i -e 607 -e 6[oO0]7 -e sabre over alfredlordtennys01tennuoft_djvu.txt and alfredlordtennys02tennuoft_djvu.txt | Neither volume of the memoir has 607 or sabres (positive control: "blundered" 3 hits in vol. I; "Light Brigade" hits in both); the footnote image shows no signature
- CONFIRMED | Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | First stanza as quoted, seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | His son's memoir, published in 1897, says Tennyson wrote it on 2 December | https://archive.org/download/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft_djvu.txt | "On Dec. 2nd he wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in a few minutes" seen on archive.org page image n426 (p. 381, running head 1854] "THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE." 381), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | says Tennyson wrote it on 2 December in a few minutes | https://archive.org/download/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft_djvu.txt | seen on archive.org page image n426 (p. 381, running head 1854] "THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE." 381), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | and notes that it was Published in the Examiner, Dec. 9th. | https://archive.org/download/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft_djvu.txt | Footnote 1: "Published in the Examiner, Dec. 9th." seen on archive.org page image n426 (p. 381, running head 1854] "THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE." 381), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | On Dec. 2nd he wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade” in a few minutes, after reading the description in the Times in which occurred the phrase “some one had blundered,” and this was the origin of the metre of his poem. | https://archive.org/download/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft_djvu.txt | Word for word seen on archive.org page image n426 (p. 381, running head 1854] "THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE." 381), 2026-11-02
- OBSERVED | We have not seen that issue of the Times, so we cannot confirm that the phrase was printed there. | research/six-hundred-and-seven/sources/daily-national-intelligencer-1854-11-29-p2.txt | The kept copy header says "The Times itself was NOT consulted"
- CONFIRMED | The memoir is the family's account, published more than forty years later. | https://archive.org/download/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft_djvu.txt | Title page text: "LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1897"; 1897 less 1854 is 43 years
- CONFIRMED | The correspondent was William Howard Russell. | https://archive.org/download/warrussell01russ/warrussell01russ_djvu.txt | Title page "BY W. H. RUSSELL, CORRESPONDENT OF "THE TIMES."" seen on archive.org page images n4 (title), n6 (Notice to the Reader), 231 and 232, 2026-11-02; archive.org metadata creator "Russell, William Howard, Sir, 1820-1907"
- CONFIRMED | whose title page calls him CORRESPONDENT OF “THE TIMES.” | https://archive.org/download/warrussell01russ/warrussell01russ_djvu.txt | seen on archive.org page images n4 (title), n6 (Notice to the Reader), 231 and 232, 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | its editor's notice says the letters appear as they did in the Times Except a few omissions and some slight alterations | https://archive.org/download/warrussell01russ/warrussell01russ_djvu.txt | "Except a few omissions and some slight alterations, they appear here precisely as they appeared originally in The Times newspaper." signed THE EDITOR. seen on archive.org page images n4 (title), n6 (Notice to the Reader), 231 and 232, 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | The same sentences, revised, are in Russell's own book The War (1855) | https://archive.org/download/warrussell01russ/warrussell01russ_djvu.txt | p. 231: "At ten minutes past eleven, our Light Cavalry brigade advanced. The whole brigade scarcely made one effective regiment, according to the numbers of continental armies" seen on archive.org page images n4 (title), n6 (Notice to the Reader), 231 and 232, 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | the Daily National Intelligencer of Washington printed it on 29 November 1854 as an extract from the correspondence of the London Times | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | "We now extract from the correspondence of the London Times:" seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | In the entry headed WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25. he wrote | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | "GREAT BATTLE OF THE 25TH OF OCTOBER. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25.-If the exhibition" seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | At 11.10 our light cavalry brigade rushed to the front. They numbered 607 sabres. | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | Word for word seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | Two documents of 1854 thus give the correspondent's figure as 607: the footnote under the poem, and the Washington reprint. | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | Both 1854 texts carry 607: the reprint seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02; the footnote seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | In this passage the alteration drops the number: At ten minutes past eleven, our Light Cavalry brigade advanced. | https://archive.org/download/warrussell01russ/warrussell01russ_djvu.txt | p. 231 seen on archive.org page images n4 (title), n6 (Notice to the Reader), 231 and 232, 2026-11-02
- OBSERVED | Anyone who looks for the 607 in the book will not find it. | recreated: grep -e 607 -e 6[oO]7 warrussell01russ_djvu.txt (fetched 2026-11-02) | No hit; positive control "1200" found 3 times; p. 231 and 232 images show no 607 and no table
- CONFIRMED | one document's killed or missing is another's killed | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | 4 p.m. note "156 men killed or missing" seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | is another's killed | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3458/data.pdf | "50 horses, killed" seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3458 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | and Ret'd from action. is not mounted strength. | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | Table header "Went into action. Ret'd from action. Loss." seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | is not mounted strength. | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | "reduced to a mounted strength of 195" seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | Russell's letter 25 Oct., 11.10 a.m. 607 | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | "At 11.10 ... They numbered 607 sabres." under WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25. seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | Russell's table 25 Oct., 2 p.m. 607 198 409, “Loss” (killed, wounded and missing together) in the loss | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | "at 2 o'clock to-day"; Totals 607, 198, 409 seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | Russell's note, both brigades 25 Oct., 4 p.m. 169, “killed or missing” 218 394 | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | "Four o'clock P. M.-In our cavalry fight to-day we had 13 officers killed or missing, 156 men killed or missing-total, 169; 21 officers wounded, 197 men wounded-total, 218 ... Horses killed or missing, 394" seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | London Gazette, the return printed 12 Nov. 157, “killed” 121 335 | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3458/data.pdf | Light Brigade rows 2/5/3/24/50, 2/3/0/23/38, 0/2/0/30/72, 3/3/1/20/76, 3/1/0/32/99 killed; wounded 2/1/0/21, 2/2/1/14, 3/3/0/20, 0/2/0/12, 4/1/2/31; summed by hand: 157, 121, 335. seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3458 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | London Gazette, the names printed 17 Nov. 97, “KILLED OR MISSING” (men only) 109, and 11 unseen 57 | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3507/data.pdf | Counted name by name: KILLED OR MISSING 16+18+25+12+26=97; WOUNDED 22+17+26+11+33=109 and 11 "Sent on board ship"; prisoners 7+9, 7+3, 5+2, 10+2, 12+0 = 57. seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | The Examiner, leader printed 18 Nov. 700 150 | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442_djvu.txt | "were 700 sabres" and "a hundred and fifty out of seven hundred return in order to their position." seen on the front page and p. 730 of the archive.org PDF of the issue (200 dpi), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | The poem printed 9 Dec. six hundred | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | "Rode the six hundred." seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Letters from Head-quarters 1856 156, “Killed and missing” 122 335 | https://archive.org/download/lettersfromhead00caltgoog/lettersfromhead00caltgoog_djvu.txt | Killed and missing 9/14/4/129 = 156; Wounded 12/9/3/98 = 122; "278 casualties;"; "335 horses killed in action" seen on archive.org page images n11 (title page) and n312 (p. 320), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | Lord Cardigan's statements printed 1868 670 195 300, “killed, wounded, or missing” in the 300 396 | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | p. 404: "300 men who had gone into action were killed, wounded, or missing, and 396 horses were put hors de combat. Of the 670 men who had gone into action, only 195 were mounted" seen on archive.org page images n435 to n438 (pp. 401 to 404), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | Kinglake, vol. IV 1868 673 195 113, “killed” 134 475 | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | 673, 195, 247 of whom 113 killed and 134 wounded, 475 horses killed seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | National Army Museum read 1 Nov. 2026 673 around 260, “killed or wounded” in the 260 475 | https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-balaklava | NAM Key fact, word for word (fetched 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | The 607 and 198 are Russell's count of men out and men back at two in the afternoon | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | "Our loss, as far as it could be ascertained, in killed, wounded, and missing, at 2 o'clock to-day" over the table seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | and the 409 in his column headed Loss. is everyone not yet back | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | Column head "Loss." seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | he warned that many will still come in, and about eighty wounded have already returned. | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | Word for word seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | The 195 is a count of men on horseback, not of men alive. | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | p. 357 "mounted strength" and footnote *: wounded men may be present at the muster, unwounded men whose chargers were killed are not counted seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | The 157 comes from a return covering 22 to 26 October: the whole of 25 October and four other days, not the charge alone. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3458/data.pdf | "Return of Casualties from 22nd to 26th October, 1854, both days inclusive." seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3458 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Kinglake's 113 and 134 come from what he calls a later examination | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | "From a later examination it resulted that" seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | These figures may not agree exactly with other returns, but I have good reason for believing them to be accurate | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | Footnote dagger ends "to be accurate," with a comma, as the record says; the page closes the quote before it seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | The return printed in the London Gazette Extraordinary of Sunday 12 November 1854, signed by the Adjutant-General, J. B. Bucknall Estcourt | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3455/data.pdf | p. 3455 masthead "Numb. 21624", "EXTRAORDINARY", "SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1854."; the return signed "J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Adjutant-General." seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3458 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | is headed Return of Casualties from 22nd to 26th October, 1854, both days inclusive. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3458/data.pdf | Word for word (italic) seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3458 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Its five Light Brigade rows add up to 157 killed of all ranks (10 officers and 147 men), 121 wounded and 335 horses killed. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3458/data.pdf | Officers 2+2+0+3+3=10; serjeants 5+3+2+3+1=14; drummers 3+0+0+1+0=4; rank and file 24+23+30+20+32=129; 157 all ranks, 147 men; wounded 121; horses 335. seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3458 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | On Friday 17 November a supplement to the Gazette printed the men by name | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3505/data.pdf | p. 3503 "SUPPLEMENT TO The London Gazette EXTRAORDINARY Of THURSDAY the 16th of NOVEMBER ... FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1854."; p. 3505 "Nominal Return of Casualties" seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | under October 25. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3506/data.pdf | "October 25." above 4TH DRAGOON GUARDS, p. 3506 seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Each Light Brigade regiment's first list is headed KILLED OR MISSING. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3507/data.pdf | KILLED OR MISSING. under each of the five Light Brigade regiments, pp. 3507 and 3508 seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | and the five lists hold 97 names. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3507/data.pdf | Counted on the images: 16, 18, 25, 12, 26 = 97 seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Two pages later comes a Return of Prisoners taken by the Russians, the 25th October, 1854. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3510/data.pdf | Italic heading, p. 3510 seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | It names 57 men of the five regiments (2 officers and 55 men; 41 of the 57 wounded, 16 not) | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3511/data.pdf | Counted: WOUNDED 7+7+5+10+12 = 41 (incl. Cornet George Clowes, Lieutenant John Chadwick); PRISONERS NOT WOUNDED 9+3+2+2 = 16 seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | and two officers of the Commissariat who are not counted here. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3511/data.pdf | "OFFICERS OF THE COMMISSARIAT. Issuer Edmund Johnson / James Kerrs", p. 3511 seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- OBSERVED | The 4th Light Dragoons come to 16 + 16 = 32, the 11th Hussars to 25 + 7 = 32, and the 13th Light Dragoons to 12 + 12 = 24: exactly the killed in the 12 November return. | recreated: counted the lists on the Gazette 21628 page images and added (python over data.json gives the same: 16+16, 25+7, 12+12) | Matches the return's men killed 32, 32, 24 exactly
- OBSERVED | The 8th Hussars come to one more than the return (27 against 26) and the 17th Lancers to four more (37 against 33). | recreated: same count | 8th Hussars 18+9=27 against 26; 17th Lancers 26+11=37 against 33
- CONFIRMED | The other five cavalry regiments in the return, the Heavy Brigade under Brigadier-General Scarlett, are the control. | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | Gazette 21628 p. 3504, Lucan's letter: "Brigadier-General Scarlett, Commanding Heavy Brigade"; Kinglake p. 131 "Brigadier-General Scarlett, the officer who commanded our Heavy Brigade" with the 5th Dragoon Guards, Scots Greys, Inniskillings and 4th Dragoon Guards, p. 135 the Royals (images n153, text p. 135)
- CONFIRMED | their lists are headed plain KILLED. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3506/data.pdf | "4TH DRAGOON GUARDS. KILLED." and the same for 5DG, 1st, 2nd, 6th Dragoons, pp. 3506 and 3507 seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- OBSERVED | and every one of the five agrees with the 12 November return with nothing added: 9 killed and 87 wounded between them, regiment by regiment. | recreated: counted the Heavy Brigade lists on the p. 3506 and 3507 images | Killed 1, 2, 2, 2, 2 and wounded 5, 9, 7, 53, 13 equal the return's men 1, 2, 2, 2, 2 and 5, 9, 7, 53, 13; 9 and 87 in all
- OBSERVED | No man appears on both his regiment's killed-or-missing list and its prisoner return. | recreated: surnames compared regiment by regiment on the images, and by script over data.json | No prisoner shares surname and initial with his regiment's KILLED OR MISSING list
- OBSERVED | Within a regiment, the one surname shared between the two kinds of list belongs to two different men in the 13th Light Dragoons | recreated: same comparison | Only Smith, 13th Light Dragoons, is shared within a regiment
- CONFIRMED | two different men in the 13th Light Dragoons: Corporal E. W. A. Smith, killed or missing, and Troop-Serjeant-Major George Smith, a wounded prisoner. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3508/data.pdf | "Corporal E. W. A. Smith" (p. 3508, KILLED OR MISSING) and "Troop-Serjeant-Major George Smith" (p. 3511, prisoners wounded) seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- OBSERVED | The ten Light Brigade officers in the return's killed column are printed as 3 “killed”, 2 “killed (doubtful)”, 2 “missing” and 3 killed or missing | recreated: counted on the p. 3459 image | Halkett, Sparke, Oldham killed; Fitzgibbon, Clowes killed (doubtful); Goad, Montgomery missing; Winter, Thompson, Chadwick killed or missing: 3, 2, 2, 3
- CONFIRMED | and 3 killed or missing, and the return's officer counts | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3459/data.pdf | "Cornet and Adjutant J. Chadwick, killed or missing;" seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3459 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- OBSERVED | and the return's officer counts (2, 2, 0, 3 and 3, regiment by regiment) are exactly these entries. | recreated: same count against the p. 3458 return | 2, 2, 0, 3, 3 officers killed by regiment on both
- CONFIRMED | Cornet G. Clowes, killed (doubtful) of the 8th Hussars appears there as Cornet George Clowes | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3459/data.pdf | "Cornet G. Clowes, killed (doubtful);" seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3459 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | appears there as Cornet George Clowes | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3511/data.pdf | "Cornet George Clowes" under 8TH HUSSARS., p. 3511 seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Cornet and Adjutant J. Chadwick, killed or missing as Lieutenant John Chadwick (the rank differs as printed). | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3459/data.pdf | seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3459 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | as Lieutenant John Chadwick (the rank differs as printed). | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3511/data.pdf | "Lieutenant John Chadwick" under 17TH LANCERS., p. 3511 seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Russell wrote a note about our cavalry fight to-day, all the cavalry and not only the Light Brigade | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | "In our cavalry fight to-day" seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | 156 men killed or missing and 197 men wounded | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | and 197 men wounded | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- OBSERVED | Add up the men in the ten cavalry regiments of the 12 November return and you get 156 killed and 197 wounded. | recreated: added serjeants, drummers and rank and file of the ten cavalry rows on the p. 3458 image | Killed 147+9=156; wounded 110+87=197
- CONFIRMED | (library catalogues name Somerset Calthorpe) | https://archive.org/metadata/lettersfromhead00caltgoog | archive.org metadata creator "Calthorpe, Somerset John Gough, 1831-1912" (fetched 2026-11-02); Open Library search also gives author "Somerset John Gough Calthorpe"; the title page names no author
- CONFIRMED | Letters from Head-quarters, published anonymously, BY AN OFFICER ON THE STAFF. | https://archive.org/download/lettersfromhead00caltgoog/lettersfromhead00caltgoog_djvu.txt | seen on archive.org page images n11 (title page) and n312 (p. 320), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | prints the Light Brigade's losses as 156 Killed and missing. and 122 wounded | https://archive.org/download/lettersfromhead00caltgoog/lettersfromhead00caltgoog_djvu.txt | Column head "Killed and missing." seen on archive.org page images n11 (title page) and n312 (p. 320), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | 278 casualties | https://archive.org/download/lettersfromhead00caltgoog/lettersfromhead00caltgoog_djvu.txt | "278 casualties;" seen on archive.org page images n11 (title page) and n312 (p. 320), 2026-11-02
- OBSERVED | That is the Gazette's 157 and 121 with one officer moved from the first column to the second. | recreated: compared Calthorpe's columns with the p. 3458 sums | 9/14/4/129 and 12/9/3/98 against 10/14/4/129 and 11/9/3/98: one officer moved
- CONFIRMED | It has since been ascertained that the Russians made a good many prisoners; the exact number is not yet known. | https://archive.org/download/lettersfromhead00caltgoog/lettersfromhead00caltgoog_djvu.txt | Word for word seen on archive.org page images n11 (title page) and n312 (p. 320), 2026-11-02
- OBSERVED | In the 4th Light Dragoons and the 8th Hussars, the wounded agree exactly (22 and 17) without the wounded prisoners | recreated: counted the WOUNDED lists on the images against the return's men wounded | 22=22 and 17=17; 11th 26 against 23, 17th 33 against 34, 13th 11 plus 11 against 14
- OBSERVED | so in those two regiments the return's wounded column appears not to include the wounded prisoners. | recreated: same count | The page words it as appearance; nothing read says how the return was compiled
- CONFIRMED | and the 13th Light Dragoons 11 wounded plus 11 Sent on board ship without being seen by the Regimental Surgeon. against 14. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3508/data.pdf | Italic heading at the head of the second column of p. 3508, between the 13th Light Dragoons' WOUNDED and 17TH LANCERS seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- OBSERVED | We found no document saying how the 12 November return was made | research/six-hundred-and-seven/sources/london-gazette-21624-1854-11-12.txt | Read pp. 3455 to 3459 and 3503 to 3511 myself: the despatch says only "I inclose the return of the losses the army has sustained since the 22nd."; nothing describes how the return was compiled
- CONFIRMED | Lord Cardigan, who commanded the Light Brigade, gave Kinglake a statement that Kinglake printed in 1868 | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3504/data.pdf | "Major-General the Earl of Cardigan, Commanding Light Cavalry Brigade" (p. 3504 image); Kinglake Appendix III and IV headed "STATEMENT LAID BEFORE MR KINGLAKE BY LORD CARDIGAN." seen on archive.org page images n435 to n438 (pp. 401 to 404), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | there then were 195 mounted men out of 670. | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | p. 402 seen on archive.org page images n435 to n438 (pp. 401 to 404), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | which numbered 673 horsemen when it went into action | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | reduced to a mounted strength of 195 | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- OBSERVED | Read that way, 673 − 195 = 478 men would be dead. | recreated: 673 - 195 by hand | 478; and 478 - 113 = 365 for the ticked readout
- CONFIRMED | A later examination, which Kinglake reports on the same page, found 113 killed and 134 wounded, 247 in all | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | "losses to the number of 247, of whom 113 had been killed and 134 wounded" on the same page as the muster seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | The later examination Kinglake reports: | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | Same sentence seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | It will be vain to seek for any correspondence between the result of the first muster and the casualties. | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | Footnote * word for word seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | Russell's 2 p.m. table has 61 men of the 13th Light Dragoons | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | 13th Light Dragoons 130, 61, 69 seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | after the charge, mustered only ten mounted troopers. | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- OBSERVED | As printed in Washington, every row and every column works. | recreated: by hand from the table image | 118-39=79, 104-38=66, 110-25=85, 130-61=69, 145-35=110; columns 607, 198, 409
- CONFIRMED | The button types the 143 that Wikipedia's version of this table gives for the 17th Lancers (revision 1380693685, read on 1 November 2026). | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade&oldid=1380693685 | Revision 1380693685 (wgRevisionId 1380693685, fetched 2026-11-02): "17th Lancers 143 35 110"
- OBSERVED | With 143, the row gives 108, not the printed 110, and the column adds to 605, not 607. | recreated: 143 - 35 and the column by hand | 108 against 110; 605 against 607
- CONFIRMED | The scan reads 145. | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | Zoomed crop of the Lancers row: 145, the 5 formed like the 5s in 85, 25 and 35 seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- OBSERVED | Its thirteen rows (cavalry staff, ten cavalry regiments, the Royal Artillery, and the Engineers and Sappers) add up to its printed total in every column | recreated: added the thirteen rows on the p. 3458 image | 13/16/4/142/381 killed and 27/21/4/199 wounded, equal to the printed Total
- OBSERVED | We read Russell's letter only in the Washington reprint of 29 November 1854; we have not seen the London original. | research/six-hundred-and-seven/sources/daily-national-intelligencer-1854-11-29-p2.txt | Kept copy says the Times was not consulted
- CONFIRMED | The footnote under the poem is the second witness to the 607. | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Russell counted sabres | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | Cardigan men who had gone into action | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | p. 404 "Of the 670 men who had gone into action" seen on archive.org page images n435 to n438 (pp. 401 to 404), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | and Kinglake horsemen | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- OBSERVED | None of these passages says how the count was made or who was in it. | research/six-hundred-and-seven/sources/kinglake-1868-vol4-excerpts.txt | Re-read the three passages on the images: none says how the 607, 670 or 673 was reached or who was in it
- CONFIRMED | which aims to give an account of every member of the Light Brigade who served in the Crimean War | http://chargeofthelightbrigade.com/index3.html | Found at the URL by assay/sources.mjs --online this pass (FOUND); the scout's raw copy of the page has "more than 2600 Hussars, Lancers and Light Dragoons"; a direct refetch now meets a bot check and was not pursued
- OBSERVED | we have not inspected any modern roll of who rode | research/six-hundred-and-seven/sources/boys-archive-biography.txt | The record names only the biography page as read
- OBSERVED | His 113 is not the 12 November return less the prisoners: 157 less the 57 named prisoners is 100. | recreated: 157 - 57 by hand | 100
- CONFIRMED | On the page where he gives them, he does not say how they were reached. | research/six-hundred-and-seven/sources/kinglake-1868-vol4-excerpts.txt | p. 357 and its two footnotes give the figures and the caveat, no method seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | Three weeks before it printed the poem, The Examiner's leader of 18 November said the brigade | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442_djvu.txt | Masthead "No 2,442.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1854."; 18 November to 9 December is 21 days seen on the front page and p. 730 of the archive.org PDF of the issue (200 dpi), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | said the brigade were 700 sabres | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442_djvu.txt | seen on the front page and p. 730 of the archive.org PDF of the issue (200 dpi), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | a hundred and fifty out of seven hundred return in order to their position. | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442_djvu.txt | seen on the front page and p. 730 of the archive.org PDF of the issue (200 dpi), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | The same leader has about half a league and to do and die. | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442_djvu.txt | "at the distance of about half a league;" seen on the front page and p. 730 of the archive.org PDF of the issue (200 dpi), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | and to do and die. | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442_djvu.txt | "led by Lord Cardigan, and they went to their work to do and die." seen on the front page and p. 730 of the archive.org PDF of the issue (200 dpi), 2026-11-02
- OBSERVED | It gives no source for its figures, and we have no evidence that Tennyson read it. | https://archive.org/details/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442 | Read the whole leader (front page and its continuation on p. 730): it cites Raglan's despatch for the order but gives no source for 700 or 150
- CONFIRMED | The National Army Museum gives Around 260 men of the Light Brigade’s 673 were killed or wounded, and 475 horses were lost. | https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-balaklava | Word for word, with the curly apostrophe (fetched 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | The 673 and the 475 are Kinglake's; the 260 is not his 247, and the museum's page does not say where it comes from. | research/six-hundred-and-seven/sources/nam-battle-balaklava.txt | The NAM page text (fetched 2026-11-02) carries no reference for its Key fact; Kinglake p. 357 gives 673 and 475 seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | Everyone not yet back counts as lost. Russell adds that many will still come in and that about eighty wounded have already returned. | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | He does not say how it was made or who was in it. | research/six-hundred-and-seven/sources/daily-national-intelligencer-1854-11-29-p2.txt | The passage gives the figure and no method seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- OBSERVED | The whole cavalry, Heavy Brigade included, so not comparable with the Light Brigade figures. | recreated: men figures against the ten cavalry rows | 156 and 197 equal both brigades' men, not the Light Brigade's 147 and 110
- CONFIRMED | Non-commissioned officers and men only, by name. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3505/data.pdf | p. 3505: "list of casualties amongst the non-commissioned officers and privates" seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | A leader writer in London; no source is given for either figure. | research/six-hundred-and-seven/sources/the-examiner-1854-11-18-p1.txt | Whole leader read, no source given seen on the front page and p. 730 of the archive.org PDF of the issue (200 dpi), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | and says the whole affair took no more than twenty minutes | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | p. 403: "did not exceed twenty minutes" seen on archive.org page images n435 to n438 (pp. 401 to 404), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | The killed and wounded are from what he calls a later examination, which he does not describe there. | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- MINOR | Follows Kinglake for the 673 and the 475; its killed and wounded is rounder and larger than his. | research/six-hundred-and-seven/sources/nam-battle-balaklava.txt | The figures match Kinglake's (p. 357) but the museum page names no source, so "Follows Kinglake" asserts a derivation nothing read shows; see Findings
- CONFIRMED | for 22 to 26 October (the whole of 25 October and four other days), not the charge alone. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3458/data.pdf | seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3458 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | rode, in the poem | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Open Government Licence v3.0 | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3458 | Gazette issue page footer (fetched 2026-11-02): "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated."
- CONFIRMED | Scan of the Asiatic Society of Bombay copy, Internet Archive. | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/page/n1.jpg | Bookplate "THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BOMBAY Town Hall, Bombay." on archive.org page image n1 (2026-11-02)
- OBSERVED | the Light Brigade lists and the prisoner return were read twice, independently (once by this layer's scout and once by its builder), and the two counts agree for every one of them | research/six-hundred-and-seven/scout-gazette-counts-2026-11-01.txt | Identical below its header to the scout's scratch file gazette-counts-image-verified.txt; its counts equal the builder's; this pass counted every list a third time from fresh renders and agrees
- OBSERVED | the Heavy Brigade lists were read once, by the builder, and agree with the 12 November return regiment by regiment | recreated: counted the Heavy Brigade lists on the p. 3506 and 3507 images | Agree with the return regiment by regiment
- CONFIRMED | When it was first printed in 1854, it came with a note saying that the newspaper report behind it gave 607. | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | The Examiner (London), No 2,445, 9 December 1854, p. 780: the poem, signed A. T., and its footnote. | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | Issue number, date and page seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | The Examiner (London), No 2,442, 18 November 1854, front page, leader The Affair of the Twenty-Fifth. | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-11-18_2442_djvu.txt | Issue number, date, heading "THE AFFAIR OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH." on the front page seen on the front page and p. 730 of the archive.org PDF of the issue (200 dpi), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | Daily National Intelligencer (Washington), 29 November 1854, p. 2, reprinting the London Times correspondent's letter (W. H. Russell). | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | Paper, date and page seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | The London Gazette Extraordinary, Numb. 21624, 12 November 1854, pp. 3455 to 3459: Raglan's despatch, the Return of Casualties from 22nd to 26th October, and the officer list. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3455/data.pdf | pp. 3455 to 3459 hold the despatches, the return (p. 3458) and the officer list (p. 3459) seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3458 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Supplement to The London Gazette Extraordinary, Numb. 21628, 17 November 1854, pp. 3505 to 3511: the nominal return and the Return of Prisoners taken by the Russians. | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3505/data.pdf | Number, date, pp. 3505 to 3511 seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by his Son, vol. I (London: Macmillan, 1897), p. 381. | https://archive.org/download/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft_djvu.txt | Title page text "A MEMOIR BY HIS SON ... VOLUME I ... LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1897"; p. 381 seen on archive.org page image n426 (p. 381, running head 1854] "THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE." 381), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | W. H. Russell, The War: from the Landing at Gallipoli to the Death of Lord Raglan (London: Routledge, 1855), pp. 231 and 232. | https://archive.org/download/warrussell01russ/warrussell01russ_djvu.txt | Title page "THE WAR: FROM THE LANDING AT GALLIPOLI TO THE DEATH OF LORD RAGLAN ... LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & CO. ... 1855." seen on archive.org page images n4 (title), n6 (Notice to the Reader), 231 and 232, 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | [S. J. G. Calthorpe], Letters from Head-quarters; or, The Realities of the War in the Crimea, by an Officer on the Staff, vol. I (London: John Murray, 1856), p. 320. | https://archive.org/download/lettersfromhead00caltgoog/lettersfromhead00caltgoog_djvu.txt | "IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. I. ... LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1856." seen on archive.org page images n11 (title page) and n312 (p. 320), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | A. W. Kinglake, The Invasion of the Crimea, vol. IV (Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1868), p. 357, and Appendix III and IV, Lord Cardigan's statements, pp. 401 to 404. | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | Title page "VOLUME IV. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. MDCCCLXVIII."; Appendix No. III begins p. 401, No. IV ends on p. 404; archive.org images n5, n391, n435 to n438
- CONFIRMED | National Army Museum, Battle of Balaklava, nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-balaklava, read 1 November 2026. | https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-balaklava | HTML title "Battle of Balaklava / National Army Museum" (fetched 2026-11-02)
- MINOR | Lives of the Light Brigade: the E. J. Boys Archive, E J Boys: a biography, chargeofthelightbrigade.com/index3.html, read 1 November 2026. | http://chargeofthelightbrigade.com/index3.html | The cited page's own title is "Edward James Boys - a biography" (title element in the scout's raw copy, $SP/scout/the-six-hundred/raw/boys-index3.html); the page cites it as "E J Boys: a biography"; see Findings
- CONFIRMED | Wikipedia, Charge of the Light Brigade, revision 1380693685, read 1 November 2026: its table of Russell's figures. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade&oldid=1380693685 | Revision 1380693685 has the table of Russell's 2 p.m. figures (fetched 2026-11-02)
- OBSERVED | the 17 November lists, recounted from the 370 names in data.json | recreated: python3 over public/strata/six-hundred-and-seven/data.json, summing len(men) over gazette17 | 370 (96 Heavy Brigade, 274 Light Brigade including the two officer prisoners); the counts per list equal the page images
- CONFIRMED | His count of the brigade as it moved off. (engine.mjs, the 11.10 a.m. card) | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | "At 11.10 our light cavalry brigade rushed to the front. They numbered 607 sabres." seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | He also gives 24 officers killed or wounded (engine.mjs, the Cardigan card) | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | p. 404: "during the engagement 24 officers were killed or wounded." seen on archive.org page images n435 to n438 (pp. 401 to 404), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | 475 horses killed, including 43 shot as unserviceable; 42 more wounded (engine.mjs, the Kinglake card) | https://archive.org/download/india.history.resource.74364/74364_djvu.txt | "(including 43 horses shot as unserviceable on account of their wounds) the brigade had 475 horses killed, besides having 42 others wounded." seen on archive.org page image n391 (p. 357), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | 13 officers, 16 serjeants, 4 drummers, 142 rank and file and 381 horses killed; 27 officers, 21 serjeants, 4 drummers and 199 rank and file wounded | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21624/page/3458/data.pdf | The printed Total line, figure for figure seen on the page image of Gazette 21624 p. 3458 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- OBSERVED | officers killed (Russell: killed or missing) 13 against the Gazette 12; officers wounded 21 against 25; horses 394 against 381 (the four-pm table) | recreated: added the staff and ten cavalry rows on the p. 3458 image by hand | Officers killed 2+10=12; officers wounded 4+11+10=25; cavalry horses 335+46=381; Russell's 13, 21, 394 as printed
- CONFIRMED | Two hours after his table, Russell wrote a note | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | Table "at 2 o'clock to-day"; note headed "Four o'clock P. M." later in the same letter, before "OCTOBER 26." seen on the LOC IIIF image of p. 2 (service ...:sn83026172:00211678215:1854112901:0400; image 0399 of the same issue carries the masthead WASHINGTON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854), 2026-11-02
- CONFIRMED | None of their men is on the prisoner return | https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3511/data.pdf | The Return of Prisoners lists only the 4th Light Dragoons, 8th and 11th Hussars, 13th Light Dragoons, 17th Lancers and two Officers of the Commissariat seen on the page images of Gazette 21628 pp. 3503 to 3511 (data.pdf rendered at 220 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Tennyson's poem says six hundred men rode in the charge. (frontmatter plain) | https://archive.org/download/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445/sim_examiner-a-weekly-paper-on-politics-literature-music_1854-12-09_2445_djvu.txt | "Rode the six hundred." seen on the p. 780 page image (archive.org PDF of the issue, page 4, rendered at 200 and 400 dpi, 2026-11-02)
- CONFIRMED | Other counts from the time disagree because they were made at different hours and counted different things, such as men still on horseback, or men missing after the fight who turned out to be prisoners. (frontmatter plain) | https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1854-11-29/ed-1/?sp=2 | Russell's 2 p.m. Loss counts everyone not back, which takes in the 57 named on the prisoner return; Kinglake p. 357 counts "mounted strength"; supported without relying on the hedged Gazette inference
- MINOR | Each quotation on this page is in quotes.json beside it, with its source and the kept copy it was checked against. | public/strata/six-hundred-and-seven/quotes.json | Every quotation is there and matches, but six of the seven Gazette 21628 entries give .../page/3507/data.pdf as source although they are printed on p. 3506 (g17-oct25, g17-killed), p. 3508 (g17-unseen), p. 3510 (g17-prisoners) and p. 3511 (g17-clowes, g17-chadwick); see Findings

## Findings
- [fixed] MINOR: quotes.json gave https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21628/page/3507/data.pdf as the source of all seven Gazette 21628 quotations, though six are printed on other pages. Re-read on the live data.pdf text layers (2026-11-02): "October 25." and "4TH DRAGOON GUARDS." with "KILLED." under it are on p. 3506; "4TH. LIGHT DRAGOONS." with "KILLED OR MISSING." under it on p. 3507; "Sent on board ship" on p. 3508; "Return of' Prisoners .taken by^ the Russians" (OCR as printed in the text layer) on p. 3510; "Cornet George Clowes" and "Lieutenant John Chadwick" on p. 3511, as the kept transcription's page markers also say. research/six-hundred-and-seven/build-quotes.mjs now has one source per printed page (g17h 3506, g17 3507, g17u 3508, g17p 3510, g17p11 3511), each with its own "where" (p. 3506 and so on), and quotes.json was rebuilt from it (`--check` agrees): g17-oct25 and g17-killed cite p. 3506, g17-km p. 3507, g17-unseen p. 3508, g17-prisoners p. 3510, g17-clowes and g17-chadwick p. 3511. No quotation text changed.
- [fixed] MINOR: the Sources list cited the Boys page as "E J Boys: a biography", a title the scout wrote and the page does not carry. Re-read: the live page (WebFetch, 2026-11-02) opens "Edward James Boys - a biography" under the header "LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE" / "The E.J. Boys Archive", and the scout's raw copy has <title>     Edward James Boys - a biography       </title>. The citation now reads "Lives of the Light Brigade: the E. J. Boys Archive, Edward James Boys - a biography, chargeofthelightbrigade.com/index3.html, read 1 November 2026. Quoted briefly." in public/strata/six-hundred-and-seven/index.html, the verifier's CITES copy, quotes.json's boys-2600 "where" (via build-quotes.mjs), the source record entries boys ("where") and cite-boys (claim, and an excerpt that now carries the title: "Edward James Boys - a biography Home Search Index of men A-Z LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE The E.J. Boys Archive", found in the kept copy), the README's source table and the kept copy's header line.
- [fixed] MINOR: "Follows Kinglake for the 673 and the 475" (the museum card) and "The 673 and the 475 are Kinglake's" (the page) said the museum took its figures from Kinglake. Re-read the live NAM page (2026-11-02): its Key fact reads "Around 260 men of the Light Brigade’s 673 were killed or wounded, and 475 horses were lost. Total British casualties were around 615." and the page names no source and does not mention Kinglake; the only evidence is that 673 and 475 equal Kinglake vol. IV p. 357 ("which numbered 673 horsemen"; "the brigade had 475 horses killed"). engine.mjs's card note now reads "Gives the same 673 and 475 as Kinglake; its killed and wounded is rounder and larger than his." and index.html reads "The 673 and the 475 are also Kinglake's figures; the 260 is not his 247, and the museum's page does not say where it comes from." The verifier's sentence check and its card-note check follow the new words (the note still carries only 673 and 475), and the source record entries card-nam and nam-nosource carry the new claims, with notes saying the page asserts only that the figures are the same.