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The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the cavalry.
- Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death. Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said.
- “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew. Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why,
- Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them. Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well,
- Flashed all their sabres bare, Flashed as they turned in air. Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while. All the world wondered. Plunged in the battery-smoke.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1809 –. 1892. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death. Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!"
Charge of the Light Brigade, disastrous British cavalry charge against heavily defended Russian troops at the Battle of Balaklava that was carried out on Oct. 25 (Oct. 13, Old Style), 1854, during the Crimean War. The suicidal attack placed the British light horse brigade, commanded by the feckless.
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His poem focuses on the terrible hardships faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the Light Brigade. Its purpose was to shame the British public into offering financial assistance.
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” was written by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson in response to a battle during the Crimean War (1853-1855). In this battle, a British cavalry unit—the “Light Brigade”—was commanded to charge against a Russian artillery unit.
