![]() ![]() Due to miscommunication in the chain of command, the Light Brigade was instead sent on a frontal assault against a different artillery battery, one well-prepared with excellent fields of defensive fire. Lord Raglan, overall commander of the British forces, had intended to send the Light Brigade to pursue and harry a retreating Russian artillery battery, a task well-suited to light cavalry. He wrote this poem in 1854 as a tribute to the men who died in the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War (1853. During the Battle of Balaklava, the Russians occupied the heights surrounding a valley near Balaklava, a port city on the Black Sea. The Charge of the Light Brigade probably would have been doomed even if the numbers had been more equal. Alfred Lord Tennyson was a Victorian poet. The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson This poem is based on an event from the Battle of Balaklava fought on October 25, 1854, during the Crimean War (1853-1856) between Russia and England. The poet was so moved when he received news of the battle that inspired his work, he wrote the poem in a single day. ![]() A small band of 670 soldiers received orders to attack a Russian cavalry of 5,240 heavily armed men. When people seek poems about soldiers valiantly facing death, they often turn to The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The Charge of the Light Brigade was a charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. The charge that led Lord Tennyson to put pen to paper occurred during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. This poem was published just six weeks after the event, its lines emphasize the valour of the cavalry in bravely carrying out their orders, regardless of the obvious outcome. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Charge of the Light Brigade ![]()
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