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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
the Charge of the Light Brigade
the Charge of the Light Brigade [the Charge of the Light Brigade] BrE NAmE
a famous attack by British ↑cavalry (= soldiers on horses) during the ↑Crimean War in 1854. An order was understood wrongly, and the soldiers, armed only with ↑swords, were sent into a valley with heavy guns on both sides of them. 247 out of 637 men were killed. The event is remembered as an outstanding example of bad military leadership and the blind courage of soldiers obeying orders. It is described in a famous poem by Tennyson:. `Forward the Light Brigade!’ Was there a man dismay’d? Not tho’ the soldier knew Some one had blunder’d: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. The Charge of the Light Brigade
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