The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Maj. Hamilton, I wholeheartedly agree that there are better sources of detailed information on a field of battle than a poet's words. But this site allows us to share all types of sources. Maybe that's the point you are making. I get it. Most of those born America today would struggle to read a single chapter of a Tolstoy Novel or even name a moment in American military history, but many would recognize the words of this poem because we are inspired by the poets words or some situation modern media made into their memory of history with those words. Some like me are inspired not just by history of words, but served because I was inspired by words of prose. But a passage made famous in the HBO series Band of Brothers, was already famous long before there was TV. That passage was from Shakespeare's play Henry V is set in a camp before the Battle of Agincourt about facing mortality in an uneven battle during the invasion of France that brought victory from the jaws of defeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFHRNGYfuo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt
The point is to understand history and relate it to our lives. We try to preserve it. We strive to inspire others with it. We struggle to educate others with lessons. We entertain each other by being good story tellers.

Today is Saint Crispin's Day. It falls on 25 October and is the feast day of the Christian saints Crispin and Crispinian (also known as Crispinus and Crispianus, though this spelling has fallen out of favour), twins who were martyred c. 286.