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Cannons to the left cannons to the right that's what the six hundred saw when they came into the valley of death. The six hundred also known as the lighting brigade knew they where surrounded by death on all sides. Two reasons that the lighting brigade showed immense courage and bravery are they did not back down nor did they surrender. First, the lighting brigade did not back down when they knew they had already lost. It took more courage them most have to keep going up that hill lined with cannons. " boldly they rode into the jaws of death" that is how the battle was describe. In " The Charge of The Lighting Brigade" the author keeps resting bout the courage that the soldiers had. Now another feature of this poem is the literature

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