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This poet wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade.

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Your new ahaAlfred, Lord Tennyson

Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade memorializes a disastrous real cavalry charge from the Crimean War. Source: The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem) ↗

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