"The Charge of the Light Brigade" was a poem written in response to the Charge of the Light Brigade (a British cavalry unit) to their death at the Battle of Balaclava on October 25th, 1854 during the Crimean War.
The Crimea
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Roughly 700 cavalrymen were part of the British Cavalry unit that made the suicide charge against the Russians in the poem Charge of the Light Brigade.
The poem was based on a charge of the light brigade in the Crimean War. On the 25th of October 1854 some Russian fores captured some Turkish guns. Lord Ralgan the British commander, sent orders to the light Cavalary to recapture them. A fatal confusion of this command resulted in Lord Cardigan leading the Light Brigade in the wrong direction, between heights dominated by Russian guns. The charge was completed with heavy losses.
Alfred Lord Tennyson was the author of the poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'.
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" was a poem written in response to the Charge of the Light Brigade (a British cavalry unit) to their death at the Battle of Balaclava on October 25th, 1854 during the Crimean War.
The Crimea
It had both :)
The theme of the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Lord Tennyson is war, heroism, and senseless death. The poem is based on an actual mismanaged charge during battle.
This poem was written on December 9, 1854.
Alfred Lord Tennyson in his poem 'The Charge of The Light Brigade'
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Charge of the Light Brigade (Lord Alfred Tennyson)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Perhaps patriosm, bravery, remember Tennyson wrote the poem as a tribute.
Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Alfred Tenyson.