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Alfred Tennyson - 1854
A narrative poem about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.Excerpt:"[...] Yet know you, as your England knows That you and all your men Were soldiers to her heart’s desire, When, in the vanish’d year, You saw the league-long rampart-fire Flare from Tel-el-Kebir Thro’ darkness, and the foe was driven, And Wolseley overthrew Arâbi, and the stars in heaven Paled, and the glory grew.
THE CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA October 25, 1854 [...]".
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