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... The Charge Of The Light Brigade. During 1854, war broke out between the Allies, Britain and France, and Russia. This was because Britain and France feared Russia would spread southwards into Turkey after the Turkish Empire collapsed. The Allies landed in Crimea, in southern Russia, and besieged Sebastopol. During this war, a British cavalry commander mistook his orders, and told his men to charge the main Russian position in a valley on horse brigade, with swords against cannons. Alfred Tennyson read a newspaper report by W. H. Russel in the Times, and very quickly, possibly due to emotion, he wrote his poem called The Charge Of The Light Brigade. Due to the fact that Alfred Tennyson was not at the war, and he got his information from a newspaper article, Tennyson's poem contains extracts from the article. For example, in the report, W. H. Russel writes: through clouds of
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