- Kadikoi
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Kadıköy for the district ofIstanbul ."Kadikoi ( _cr. Qadıköy, _ru. Кадыкой) in the 19th century was a village on the
Crimea npeninsula , inUkraine , about 1mile north ofBalaklava . TheBattle of Balaclava (also known as the Battle of Kadikoi to Russian historians) was fought on the hills and valleys to the north of Kadikoi in 1854. The village was later known as "Kadykovka" (Кадыковка), and "Pryhorodne" (Пригородне). Currently it's merged intoBalaklava city, and is known asmicrodistrict Kadykovka. Its original Crimean Tatar name means literally "village of a judge" (qadı - judge, köy - village).The
British Army built astationary engine on a hillside near the village, to up haul trains carrying men andmateriel .Another hill, slightly to the north and east of Kadikoi, was defended by six companies of the
93rd (Highland) Regiment (theSutherland Highlanders , around 600 soldiers), a Turkish battalion (around 1,000 soldiers), and a six-gun battery of field artillery. The hill was attacked by a large forge of Russian cavalry on25 October 1854 , but repulsed by the British "Thin Red Line". The Heavy Brigade charged the stalled Russian cavalry in the South Valley slightly to the north, followed later by thecharge of the Light Brigade in the North Valley, a few miles further north.
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