The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the cavalry.

“Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Someone had blundered. Theirs but to do and die. Rode the six hundred. All the world wondered. Shattered and sundered. Not the six hundred. While horse and hero fell. Left of six hundred.

2014年10月24日 · Rather than declare victory, however, Britain and France decided to punitively target the Russian naval base in Sevastopol, located on the Crimean Peninsula. On September 13, 1854, a joint allied...

Charge of the Light Brigade, disastrous British cavalry charge against heavily defended Russian troops at the Battle of Balaklava that was carried out on Oct. 25 (Oct. 13, Old Style), 1854, during the Crimean War.

The Charge of the Light Brigade, according to many sources, was not a romantic and heroic assault against overwhelming odds, but an unnecessary bungle that destroyed the effectiveness of the Cavalry Division for the remainder of the war.

On 25th October 1854 the Russian army led by Prince Menshikov launched an assault on the British base at Balaklava. Initially it looked as if a Russian victory was imminent as they gained control of some of the ridges surrounding the port, therefore controlling the Allied guns.

2017年10月23日 · On October 25, 1854 members of the British light cavalry led a charge by mistake into the heart of the Russian Imperial army. 110 soldiers died in the charge, 161 were injured and 475 horses killed. The British Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson would go on to immortalize the event in his poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade”.

2025年1月3日 · The Charge of the Light Brigade, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1855. The poem, written in Tennyson’s capacity as poet laureate, commemorates the heroism of a brigade of British soldiers at the Battle of Balaklava (1854) in the Crimean War.

2010年7月21日 · In an event alternately described as one of the most heroic or disastrous episodes in British military history, Lord James Cardigan leads a charge of the Light Brigade cavalry against...

“The Charge of the Light Brigade,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, memorializes the courage of a British cavalry brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.