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Charge of the Light Brigade
Artist:
William Simpson
; Restoration:
Adam Cuerden
On
October 25
, 1854, during the
Battle of Balaclava
in the
Crimean War
,
British
cavalry
units
charged
heavily fortified
Russian
opposition, an action known as the
Charge of the Light Brigade
. By mischance, they attacked the wrong target, as the orders were unclear, and as a result suffered great casualties.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
's
famous poem
made the charge a symbol of warfare at both its most courageous and its most tragic.
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