Lord Raglan then commanded Major General James Brudenenell (Lord Cardigan) to defend abandoned Turkish guns from Russian seizure. However, the charge was largely successful and thus there is no “Charge of the Heavy Brigade” poem. General James Yorke Scarlett successfully repelled the Russian charge with his own charge of heavy cavalry. General Pavel Leprandi of the Russian Imperial Army recognized the weak British flank and sought to expose it.

The British military of the right flank was numerically low in men in comparison to the respective French and Ottoman flanks. The British military units were positioned on the right flank of the allied front. The Battle of Balaclava was a battle within the larger Siege of Sevastopol in which an alliance of British, French, and Ottoman military units attacked the port city of Sevastopol, Crimea that was being defended by Russian military units. However, it is the disastrous charge of Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset (Lord Raglan)’s light brigade of cavalry that affected the emotions of Alfred Lord Tennyson and motivated the poet to write The Charge of the Light Brigade. It was not even the only British cavalry charge of the battle. However, the charge by British light cavalry was not the only cavalry charge of the battle. Although, the charge of the light brigade is the most notable cavalry charge of the Battle of Balaclava and perhaps the most notable cavalry charge of the Crimean War. The Battle of Balaclava occured on Octoin Balaclava, Crimea near the Black Sea. The poem is named after a light cavalry charge during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War.

In 1854, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote and published a poem titled The Charge of the Light Brigade.

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