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"The Charge of the Light Brigade" is an 1854 narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. He wrote the original version on 2 December 1854, and it was published on 9 December 1854 in The Examiner. He was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom at the time.
The charge was the result of a misunderstood order from the commander-in-chief, Lord Raglan, who had intended the Light Brigade to attack a different objective for which light cavalry was better suited, to prevent the Russians from removing captured guns from overrun Turkish positions. The Light Brigade made its charge under withering direct ...
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Maud, and Other Poems (1855) was Alfred Tennyson's first published collection after becoming poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other poems" was " The Charge of the Light Brigade ", which had already been published in the Examiner a few months earlier.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!' Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldiers knew. Some one had blunder'd: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death. Rode the six hundred. — From "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, first published this year
Hughes was a member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society, and attended the reunions for survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1895, 1910, 1912 and 1913. He received a pension from the T. H. Roberts Fund, which had been set up for the soldiers in the Charge who had fallen on hard times, and was also granted a pension from the Royal ...
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville Jr., original oil on canvas, 1894. Newspaper accounts of the gallant charge had been given wide circulation in England by the time Cardigan's ship berthed at the port of Folkestone on 13 January 1855 and the town offered him a rapturous welcome. [82]