Balaclava (Balacla`va) , a small port 6 m. SE. of Sebastopol, with a large land-locked basin; the head-quarters of the British during the Crimean war, and famous in the war, among other events, for the “Charge of the Six Hundred.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ba`laam * Balance of power