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Old 22-06-2004, 06:02 AM
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I just saw the film by Tony Richardson of the Charge of the Light Brigade, set in the Crimean War. I would like to find out more about the film and about the real historical event that originated it. Can anyone point me to a good website about it? I have tried some searches but found nothing significant. I just thought I would try this before hitting the library ;-)

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Read the book *The Reason Why* by Cecil Woodham-Smith:

http://www.poetry-reviews.com/Reason_Whyth...0140012788.html
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But don't watch The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn & David Niven if you want anything like historical accuracy.

The Curtiz version introduces a whole extra story to make the charge revenge for some act in India.

The Richardson version romanticises it a bit, but it's closer to historical accuracy in that it was really all the fault of the people in charge arguing and refusing to speak to each other.

BTW that was quite a day for the British Army. It was earlier that same day that The Thin Red Line of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders held fast against a charge by the Russian heavy cavalry. Between those two actions there was a successful charge by the British heavy cavalry which succeeded despite being outnumbered by the Russians - but they didn't get a poem written about them.

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Thank you very much for your kind responses. I have followed the leads you sent me. Best, Fernando.
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There was a successful charge by the British heavy cavalry which succeeded despite being outnumbered by the Russians - but they didn't get a poem written about them.[/b]
Yes, they did.

http://home.att.net/~TennysonPoetry/chba.htm
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There was a successful charge by the British heavy cavalry which succeeded despite being outnumbered by the Russians - but they didn't get a poem written about them.[/b]
Yes, they did.

http://home.att.net/~TennysonPoetry/chba.htm [/b]
Well, you live & learn (or that's the general idea).

Thanks Culpepper. It's not one of Tennyson's better known poems is it.

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The Charge of the Light Brigade also by Tennyson is at
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/p.../poems/355.html
This also gives you more urls to look at about the Crimean War.
Hope this is of help to you.
the charge brings to mind what a WW1 soldier once said
We didn't know who to shoot first, the Hun or the bloody Officers.

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