Emphasis Preaching Journal

Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a poem honoring the heroics of the British light cavalry at the Battle of Balaciava in the Crimean War. The poem, titled The Charge of the Light Brigade, has become an epic, not only for its wording but also because it recounts the discipline of soldiers who went forth in a suicidal charge. The men did not question their orders; they followed the commands given to them. Perhaps the best known and most often repeated line of the poem is, "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred."