Light Brigade : The allusion is to an English cavalry brigade in the Crimean War, whose heroism was made famous by Tennyson in his poem The Charge of the Light Brigade (1855) written as part of his duties as poet laureate. The countless accounts of spectacular bravery, self-sacrifice of steadfast soldiers, of the fearless officers, of the asinine blunders of the commanders in the field & of the shameful recriminations that followed apart, the most crucial aspect of that war was the courage of Florence Nightingale & her brave band of nurses who went into the battlefield to nurse the dying & wounded regardless of which side they had belonged to – a first in the history of European wars laying the foundation-stone on which would come up the ambulance brigades of every Army in the world & the International Red Cross.
... way so vividly described in these lines of Rabindranath: There began a scramble As to who should be the first to give up his life; That was the only hurry. Or else, the way the Light Brigade of England acted at Balaclava in the Crimean War: Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred. The Japanese soldiers too in one of their encounters with ...
... natural to a distracted John Bull, sees everything red. Sedition to the right of him, sedition to the left of him, sedition before and behind him, and through it all the Englishman like a heroic Light Brigade, charges in for King and motherland. Page 152 ...
... Rabindranath: There began a scramble As to who should be the first to give up his life; That was the only hurry. Or else, the way the Light Brigade of England acted at Balaclava in the Crimean War: Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred. The Japanese ...
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