Charge of the Light Cavalry Brigade, 25th Oct. 1854
William Simpson · 1855
Why it's great
On October 25, 1854, British light cavalry rode straight down a valley into Russian cannons in the Charge of the Light Brigade, immortalized in Tennyson's poem. William Simpson, a war artist, drew this view the next year.
🏛️ Part of history
The Crimean War (1853–1856) — On October 25, 1854, British light cavalry rode straight down a valley into Russian cannons in the Charge of the Light Brigade, immortalized in Tennyson's poem.
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William Simpson was a Scottish war artist, born in Glasgow in 1823. He worked as a correspondent for the Illustrated London News and was sent to the Crimean War, drawing what he saw for newspapers at home, and later traveled to India, Abyssinia and elsewhere. He died in London in 1899.
