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besides 335 horses killed in action, or obliged afterwards to be destroyed from wounds. It has since been ascertained that the Russians made a good many prisoners; the exact number is not yet known. [13] Nearly 36 years later, Kipling wrote " The Last of the Light Brigade" (1890), commemorating a visit by the last 20 survivors to Tennyson (then aged 80) to reproach him gently for not writing a sequel about the way in which England was treating its old soldiers. [34] Some sources treat the poem as an account of a real event, [35] but other commentators class the destitute old soldiers as allegorical, with the visit invented by Kipling to draw attention to the poverty in which the real survivors were living, in the same way that he evoked Tommy Atkins in " The Absent-Minded Beggar" (1899). [36] [37] Illustrated London News 30 October 1875, reporting the celebration at Alexandra Palace of the survivors of the Charge and some of their recollections including those of Edward Richard Woodham the Chairman of the Committee that organised the celebrationBattles: Charge of the Light Brigade". History of war. Archived from the original on 24 June 2011 . Retrieved 4 February 2011. Lootens, Tricia (2000). "Victorian poetry and patriotism". In Bristow, Joseph (ed.). The Cambridge companion to Victorian poetry. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp. 269–70. ISBN 0-521-64115-2.

There is a lively description of the cavalry charge in the 1862 novel Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley. [38] The reputation of the British cavalry was significantly enhanced as a result of the charge, though the same cannot be said for their commanders.The E.J. Boys Archive online". ChargeOfTheLightBrigade.com. Archived from the original on 28 August 2013 . Retrieved 14 May 2013. a b c d Correspondent (14 November 1854). "The Cavalry Action at Balaclava 25 October". The Times. No.21898. pp.7–8. Although unnamed, the correspondent was William Howard Russell