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The Charge of the Light Brigade...( Substitute the word 'Yankees'...for Brigade )
ReplyDeleteBy Lord Alfred Tennyson...on Dec 9th..1854.
( The first, fifth, and sixth verse')
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.
Copied from Poems of Alfred Tennyson,
J. E. Tilton and Company, Boston, 1870
A strategic blunder by the English Army, resulting in the destruction of a fine
mounted military force.
I compare what happened in 1854, to what I see on the field today.
No disrespect to those fine Light Horseman.