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World Service,25 Oct 2010,10 mins

The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854

Witness History

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In October 1854 during the Crimean War, a brigade of British horsemen carried out a charge against Russian cannons which would go down in history. It was witnessed by a journalist William Russell - and immortalised by a poet, Lord Tennyson.

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