JSTOR ( October 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭharge of the Light Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville Jr.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Charge of the Light Brigade" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. Responsibility for the miscommunication has remained controversial, as the order was vague and Captain Louis Nolan, who delivered the written orders with some verbal interpretation, was killed in the first minute of the assault. Its lines emphasise the valour of the cavalry in carrying out their orders regardless of the risk. The events were the subject of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's narrative poem " The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), published six weeks after the event. The Light Brigade made its charge under withering direct fire and reached its target, scattered some of the gunners but was forced to retreat immediately. The charge was the result of a misunderstood order from the commander in chief, Lord Raglan, who had intended the Light Brigade to attack a different objective for which light cavalry was better suited, to prevent the Russians from removing captured guns from overrun Turkish positions. On 25 October 1854, the Light Brigade, led by Lord Cardigan, mounted a frontal assault against a Russian artillery battery which was well prepared with excellent fields of defensive fire. 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.
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