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The Fee of the Light Brigade is the most well-known British cavalry fee in history, possibly also eclipsing the renown of some other mounted strike conducted by the armed forces of other countries in the overall creativeness. This cavalry action is certainly remembered far more vividly than the 1854 Battle of Balaclava where it happened, and even the wider Crimean Warfare that led to the battle. Obviously, the prominence of the Fee in popular and historical storage is due mainly to Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem talking about the events of that distant late October afternoon. The bearded Poet Laureate made a robust, gripping poetic narrative that set the encounter securely in both popular creativeness and in the British literary oeuvre. A huge number of people who know nothing at all else of the Crimean Warfare between THE UK and the Russian Empire are familiar with Tennyson's memorable verses. At exactly the same time, however, his words also created a narrative about the fight which includes obscured much in contrast evidence, replacing fact with story and completely obscuring the real significance of the Fee of the Light Brigade. Indeed, its understanding by historians and depiction in history literature has been massively inspired by the absolute artistic electric power of Tennyson's poem. Sober historians have unwitting cherry-picked the existing original documents to aid Tennyson's "version" of the happenings while disregarding much in contrast evidence that provides a very different perspective of the Light Brigade's strike.
