"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...
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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...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 American historical adventure film from Warner Bros., starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. It was directed...
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Light Brigade (poem), by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912 film), a silent film The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film), a...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1912 American silent historical drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley. Produced by Edison Studios, the film portrays...
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poem The Charge of the Light Brigade. Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the...
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Light Brigade Alfred Tennyson's poems The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Charge of the Heavy Brigade The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 film The Charge...
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2003. The name is a reference to the Charge of the Light Brigade, an 1854 battle memorialized in a famous poem by Alfred Tennyson. "What's Happening...
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Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington The Daisy To the Rev. F. D. Maurice Will The Charge of the Light Brigade The poem was inspired by Charlotte Rosa...
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refrain in "The Charge of the Light Brigade", an 1854 narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava...
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William Henry Pennington (category British Army personnel of the Crimean War)
was a soldier in the British Army who during the Crimean War took part in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854. On leaving the Army he became...
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that they squared off against. The line was nicknamed "the Light Brigade" after the "Charge of the Light Brigade" poem drafted by Alfred, Lord Tennyson...
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(1830). The critic Christopher Ricks writes that it is among the best poems in the volume, all of which originate in Tennyson’s "despondency". In “The Kraken...
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Balaklava (redirect from History of Balaklava)
[citation needed] The town became famous for the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War thanks to the suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade, a British cavalry...
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (category Presidents of the Society of Authors)
influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Tennyson also focused on short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears...
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Sussex Regiment Royal Marines Light Infantry Royal Navy Brigade The Desert Column arrived on the salient overlooking the wadi of Abu Klea not long before sunset...
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Historical poetry (category Historical poems)
Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Blue and the Gray by Francis Miles Finch A Message by...
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describes the Thin Red Line, the Charge of the Heavy Brigade, and the Charge of the Light Brigade in his novel Flashman at the Charge. In the 1968 film...
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early poem by Alfred Tennyson, first published in 1830. In the 1830 and 1842 editions the poem is in one long stanza, with a full stop in the 1830 edition...
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'Futility' by Wilfred Owen 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson 'Bayonet Charge' by Ted Hughes 'The Falling Leaves' by Margaret Postgate...
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such was the consternation over the events at Chillianwala that, after the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade, when Lord Lucan remarked "This is...
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attacked the British lines in a disastrous series of charges; later that morning the 21st Lancers charged and defeated another force that appeared on the British...
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Royal Scots Greys (redirect from The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons)
and Ishchenko, p. 158. Terry Brighton, Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade, (London: Viking, 2004. Also New York: Henry Holt,...
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Stonewall Jackson's Way (category Stonewall Brigade)
Jackson's Way" is a poem penned during the American Civil War that later became a well-known patriotic song of the Confederate States and the Southern United...
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regiment ordered to charge retreated from the field instead, fired on by their own infantry. Merlen's Light Cavalry Brigade charged the French artillery...
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This is a list of films based on poems. Lists of film source material List of films based on Greco-Roman mythology...
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Ripley's brigade and were also driven back in disorder, losing their own three 6-pounder guns. These were recovered by a charge by the light company of the 41st...
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break of four years as a mark of respect; Tennyson's laureate poems "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" were...
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The Miller's Daughter is a narrative poem by Alfred Tennyson, first printed in 1833 and significantly revised in 1842. The poem was first published in...
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United States Cavalry (redirect from Cavalry of the United States of America)
to 196th Infantry Brigade (Light Brigade), Americal Division Troop H, 17th Cavalry; assigned to 198th Infantry Brigade (Light Brigade), Americal Division...
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