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"The Charge of the Light Brigade” celebrates an act of bravery and sacrifice—a suicidal cavalry charge during the Crimean war. Written just six weeks later, Tennyson's poem argues that the willingness of the cavalry to sacrifice themselves—without calling their orders into question—makes them heroes.
Answer: As the poem opens, the Light Brigade's leader commands hundreds of his soldiers to keep riding towards the lowlands until they reach and can seize Russian firearms. The troops are, as is mentioned three times in the first stanza, half a league away from finding their enemy's firearms. Unaware that one of their commanders has made a mistake, the soldiers calmly ride forward but as they reach the lowlands, the Light Brigade soldiers are attacked. As cannons sound, the English hold their swords high and fight on. In the smoky air caused by the cannons, the soldiers bravely fight on, managing to run their swords into the flesh of some of their Russian enemies. The soldiers soon find they cannot withstand the Russian cannons any longer, as their horses and friends lie wounded or lifeless on the ground, the surviving soldiers watch their enemies retreat, unaware that their Light Brigade will be remembered as glorious.