One of the Six Hundred is a military adventure novel by James Grant, the prolific Victorian Scottish writer of historical and military fiction. The title alludes to the six hundred cavalry troopers of the Light Brigade whose suicidal charge at Balaclava in 1854 was immortalised by Tennyson, and the novel draws on this celebrated episode of the Crimean War to frame its patriotic adventure narrative.
Grant’s fiction appealed strongly to Victorian readers with an appetite for military history and heroic action. This public-domain text is available as a free EPUB from Better Gutenberg.