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Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” is Published, Which Memorializes the Bravery of 600 British Soldiers at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimea Just Six Weeks Previous. December 9, 1854.
Image: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Richard Caton Woodville Jr., oil on canvas, 1894. (Public Domain) On this day in history, December 9, 1854, The Examiner publishes Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” which memorializes the bravery of 600 British soldiers charging a heavily fortified location during the Battle of…