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"The Charge of the Light Brigade", by Lord Alfred Tennyson at Eserver.org; A copy of the poem hand-written by Tennyson at Virginia.eud; Illustrated history of the Charge of the Light Brigade (gallery), BBC News; Roger Fenton photographs at the Library of Congress "The Last of the Light Brigade" by Rudyard Kipling at Kiplingsociety.co.uk ...
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The poem was inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring, younger daughter of William Baring (1779–1820) and Frances Poulett-Thomson (d. 1877). Frances Baring married, secondly, Arthur Eden (1793–1874), Assistant-Comptroller of the Exchequer, and they lived at Harrington Hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, which is the garden of the poem (also referred to as "the Eden where she dwelt" in Tennyson's poem ...
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Tennyson wrote the poem based on two articles published in The Times: the first, published on 13 November 1854, contained the sentence "The British soldier will do his duty, even to certain death, and is not paralyzed by the feeling that he is the victim of some hideous blunder," the last three words of which provided the inspiration for his ...
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (/ ˈ t ɛ n ɪ s ən /; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria 's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu".
Lord Raglan, the one-armed commander-in-chief of Britain's Crimean forces, is portrayed on horseback issuing orders of engagement as he surveys the terrain and Russian troop positions. The film then depicts Captain Nolan taking Raglan's orders and riding to relay them to George Bingham, the Earl of Lucan , who commands the army's cavalry division.
The film's screenplay is by Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh, from a story by Michael Jacoby, and based on the 1854 poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The music score was composed by Max Steiner , his first for Warner Bros., and the cinematography was by Sol Polito .