Well, we'd be short
A great poem
A great quote
A magnificent example to the point of cliché of the defects of the british army at the time.
In the short run, it probably has minor advantages, tactically. In the long run, the sheer idiocy of it surely added to the push for reform, which may not happen or be as thorough.
Even the Horse Guards had to admit that the system needed fixing after that disaster.
Two guys. Famous for militarly disasters and sweaters. ????