Charge of the light brigade

Came across this all time great poem of Tennyson. The poem narrates an incident in the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War between Britain and Russia (1854)

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldiers knew
  Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to the right of them,
Cannon to the left of them,
Cannon in front of them
  Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
  Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army while
  All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
  Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
  Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
  All the world wonder'd.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
  Noble six hundred!

—Alfred, Lord Tennyson

These lines from the second stanza

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death

indeed speaks volumes about the way a soldier fights...death before dishonour...duty above self

Reading this poem I cant help remembering the similar charge made by just seven soldiers (maavle) including the Sarsenapati (Commander in Chief)Prataprao Gujar of Shivaji Maharaj's army on the army camp of Adilshahi Commander (Sardar) Behlol Khan. Battle of Nesari near Kolhapur ...Sheer lunacy of seven against thousands...sword, spears and arrows from everywhere...and the obvious end. But this charge was out of revenge, mad rage and unbearable feeling of shame that Prataprao felt after being rebuked by Shivaji Maharaj for letting off Behlol Khan in the previous encounter.