"The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is an emotive and vivid account of the doomed charge by British cavalrymen during the Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War (1853-1856). The poem celebrates bravery, duty, and the terrible cost of war.
The poem opens with six hundred cavalrymen riding 'Half a league onward' into the 'valley of Death', clearly illustrating their courage and fearlessness despite ....