In the canon
The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1854
- Pages
- Pages 1
Six hundred British cavalrymen ride down a valley into Russian guns on three sides because an order came through garbled, and the poem beats out the gallop, the cutting at the guns and the ride back of the few, then asks that they be honoured.
Their's not to reason why, / Their's but to do and die, / Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.