00:23Hello out there, Peabody and Sherman here.
00:25Anyone for Tenny's son?
00:27Who's Tenny's son, Mr. Peabody?
00:29The brilliant poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade.
00:32Are we going to visit Mr. Tennyson today?
00:34Well, no, I thought we'd visit the Light Brigade.
00:36We set the way back for Balaclava, a small port in the Crimea, in the year 1854.
00:41At that time, the Russian army had the British forces under heavy siege.
00:47We arrived on the scene just as Lord Cardigan,
00:49sitting astride his magnificent British horse, raised his sword to signal the advance.
00:54Oh boy, Mr. Peabody, we're just in time to see the Light Brigade charge.
00:57You are laboring under a misapprehension, Sherman,
00:59for if you'll notice, the brigade is lighter than usual.
01:02You're right, Mr. Peabody, the horses are there, but there's nobody on them.
01:05It was imperative that Lord Cardigan be informed of this fact.
01:09Brigadez!
01:10Stop!
01:11Stop!
01:12What do you mean, stop out of the way?
01:15We're going to charge!
01:16If you charge, your Lord Jip, you'll be charging alone.
01:19A quick glance to the rear told the story.
01:21Good Lord, they've done it again!
01:23Done what again?
01:24And where are they?
01:25They've all taken weekend leave.
01:28For a month.
01:29But someone's got to get them back here.
01:31That is an impossible task.
01:33Not for Mr. Peabody, it isn't.
01:35Sherman's well-founded hero worship of me had done it again.
01:38Here is a list showing where each man is spending his leave.
01:41How many men are there?
01:42Six.
01:43I thought there were 600.
01:44Oh no, there's only six.
01:46That's why it was called the Light Brigade.
01:48The first two men on the list were Private Higginbottom and Corporal McChesney, and they
01:53had a weakness for Chinese food.
01:55The nearest Chinese restaurant, of course, was in Hong Kong, and that's where we found
01:59them, inside Ed Fu Young's Chopped Sewery.
02:01You've got to get back to the post immediately.
02:04Can't do it, lady.
02:05No!
02:06We've got 15 more courses of food coming, and we ain't going to leave till we get some.
02:1015 more courses?
02:11That'll take forever, Mr. Peabody.
02:13No, it won't.
02:14Hand me that fortune cookie.
02:15I inserted a substitute fortune into the cookie, and when it was opened...
02:19The food has been poisoned.
02:22Signed, a friend.
02:24God, blimey.
02:25We'd better get back to the blanking post and have our stomachs pumped.
02:29That takes care of numbers one and two.
02:31Next, Sergeant Clappingstone.
02:32Where is he?
02:33The city of Sebastopol, in, of all things, a circus.
02:36It seemed the good sergeant came from a family of circus performers, and in his off time,
02:39he picked up a few extra rubles as a human cannonball.
02:42There he is now, Mr. Peabody, climbing into the mouth of that cannon.
02:45Excellent.
02:46He'll be back at the post in no time.
02:47All I had to do was charge the cannon with a little extra gunpowder, aim it in the direction
02:52of Balaclava, and the departure came off right on schedule.
03:00The next two names on the list were Lieutenant Favisham and Captain Trippingwell.
03:03We came across them on a tennis court in Rangoon, India.
03:09If they're that engrossed in the game, we'll get them back without their even knowing it.
03:13I took one end of the net, Sherman took the other, and we headed to the railway terminal
03:16with a match still in progress.
03:21I'm sure the citizens of India had never seen the 515 for Balaclava depart with a tennis
03:25match high atop the caboose.
03:27Only one more to go, Mr. Peabody.
03:29Yes, but that last one was a dilly.
03:31He was Colonel Fotheringay, or should I say patient Fotheringay, for it was in a hospital
03:35in Odessa that we found him.
03:37You'll have to be very quiet.
03:39The colonel has been stricken with severe pains in the chest.
03:42He can't be moved under any condition.
03:44Hmm, mind if I see the x-rays?
03:47Not at all.
03:48Here.
03:48Close examination revealed something that only my keen eye detected.
03:52I can have him on his feet in 30 seconds.
03:54Prepare the operating room immediately.
03:56But, Mr. Peabody, you're not going to operate, are you?
03:59Sherman, by now you should know that I am one of the smoothest operators there is.
04:03Scissors, please.
04:05There, it's done.
04:07Amazing, sir!
04:08Amazing!
04:08The pain is gone!
04:10What did you do?
04:11I simply removed the metal from your tunic.
04:13Whoever pinned it on, pinned it rather deeply.
04:16Hey, Jove!
04:17I feel so good I shall return to the post immediately!
04:21Thus it was that all the men were present and accounted for when it came time for the
04:25Light Brigade to charge.
04:28Brigadez!
04:29Charge!
04:32Oh, how thrilling, Mr. Peabody!
04:35Not only thrilling, it helped end the war in the Crimea.
04:37Then the British became their friends?
04:39Well, not exactly.
04:40You see, following the war, the Crimeans borrowed a large sum of money from the British.
04:44Don't tell me they didn't pay them back!
04:46Well, that goes without saying, Sherman.
04:47Everybody knows that Crimea doesn't pay.
04:51Don't tell me they didn't pay.
04:56Don't tell me they didn't pay.
04:59Don't tell me they didn't pay.
05:00Don't tell me they didn't pay.
05:00Don't tell me they didn't pay.
05:01Don't tell me they didn't pay.
05:01Don't tell me they didn't pay.
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