Charge of the Light Brigade
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The Charge of the Light Brigade, an 1895 engraving by US artist Richard Caton Woodville (1825–1855). This event in the Crimean War, in which the English brigade charged the Russian army against hopeless odds and was slaughtered, was glorified by Alfred Tennyson (then English poet laureate) in his poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (1854).
Disastrous attack by the British Light Brigade of cavalry against the Russian entrenched artillery on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War at the Battle of Balaclava. Of the 673 soldiers who took part, there were 272 casualties.
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