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• Charge of the Light Brigade, The
  Charge of the Light Brigade, The

  noun

  a poem (1854) by Tennyson, celebrating the British cavalry attack on the Russian position at Balaklava during the Crimean War.
• “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
  “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

  (1854) A poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that celebrates the heroism of a British cavalry brigade in its doomed assault on much larger forces. The poem contains the well-known lines “Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die.”

Charge of the Light Brigade, The

American  

[thuh chahrj uhv thuh lahyt bri-geyd] / ðə ˈtʃɑrdʒ əv ðə ˈlaɪt brɪˌgeɪd /

noun

1. a poem (1854) by Tennyson, celebrating the British cavalry attack on the Russian position at Balaklava during the Crimean War.

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“The Charge of the Light Brigade” Cultural  

1. (1854) A poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that celebrates the heroism of a British cavalry brigade in its doomed assault on much larger forces. The poem contains the well-known lines “Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die.”

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Example Sentences

There were boys who scrambled for the right to recite "The Tournament," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "The Star-Spangled Banner," and so on.

From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)