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Charge of the Light Brigade on TCM tonight at 8
Apr 11, 2022, 2:30 PM
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starring Errol Flynn (recently found out he was Australian always thought he was British) and Olivia de Havilland. Great movie from 1936 where 600 British soldiers in the light Calvary rode to almost certain death due to a blunder in the Battle of Balaclava against the Russians in the Crimean War in 1854:
The Charge of the Light Brigade
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
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Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
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“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
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Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
IV
Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered.
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
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Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell.
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
VI
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
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When does the Charge of the Heavy Brigade come on?
Apr 11, 2022, 2:35 PM
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Branson, Mizzou?***
Apr 11, 2022, 2:41 PM
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Re: Charge of the Light Brigade on TCM tonight at 8
Apr 11, 2022, 3:24 PM
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The based the poem and the film on this song from Iron Maiden
You'll take my life, but I'll take yours too
You'll fire your musket, but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand, there's no turning back
We get so close, near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my horse below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y98-ksHnjE4
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Re: Charge of the Light Brigade on TCM tonight at 8
Apr 11, 2022, 3:27 PM
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Which itself was based on this ABBA song, oddly. But then, Sweden is very close to Russia. So maybe it all makes sense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BshxCIjNEjY
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Nice.***
Apr 11, 2022, 4:13 PM
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