![]() ![]() The field of battle is referred to as ‘the valley of Death’, referencing Psalm 23 of the Bible. The soldiers only know that it is their duty to ‘do and die’. The misunderstanding in the commands is mentioned in the second stanza but only briefly. Of the 666 men who took part in this charge, 271 were casualties (injured, captured or killed). Although they knew they were doomed, as the Russians had guns against the cavalry’s sabres (a type of sword), the brigade did as they had been told and attacked. On 25th of October, 1854 a lightly armoured cavalry unit received a garbled message to attack the Russian forces. The events had been reported in the press six weeks before Tennyson’s version appeared. It relates a dramatic version of events of a key battle in the Crimean War. ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ is written in the third person.
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