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The Charge of the Light Brigade

Great Britain · Arts / Literature. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1855

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, 1st1855

Arts / Literature

Tennyson produced one of his best known works, "The Charge of the Light Brigade", a dramatic tribute to the British cavalrymen involved in an ill-advised charge on 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War.

Names involved

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, 1st

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