Trivia Question: “The Charge of the Light Brigade” was a poem about what war?
Answer: The Crimean War
Alfred Lord Tennyson was the writer behind “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” He composed it to celebrate a unit of British soldiers who engaged in a suicide charge to capture a cannonade. As for the Crimean War, it was a conflict fought between Russia and an alliance largely led by the U.K. and the Ottoman Empire.
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