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Admiral allies Alma arms army arrived artillery assault Baidar Balaklava battalions batteries battle bayonets Belbek boats Brigade British camp Canrobert Captain carried cavalry close Colonel columns command commissariat Cossacks covered Crimea dead embrasures enemy enemy's English Eupatoria expedition feet fire flank fleet followed force French front gabions gallant Gallipoli ground Guards guns harbour head-quarters heavy heights hill horses hour houses huts infantry Inkermann Kadikoi Kamiesch Kertch killed Kinburn labour land Lieutenant Light Division Lord Raglan Malakoff Mamelon miles morning musketry night o'clock Odessa officers Omar Pasha parapet party Pasha position ravine rear Redan redoubts regiments retired ridge Rifle riflemen right attack road rode round shot rushed Russians Sardinian Sebastopol sent shell ships shore shot side siege Sir George Brown smoke soldiers soon staff steamers Tchernaya tents took town troops Turkish Turks valley Varna vessels walls wounded yards Zouaves
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Page 169 - Greys and Enniskilleners went right at the centre of the Russian cavalry. The space between them was only a few hundred yards; it was scarce enough to let the horses 'gather way,' nor had the men quite space sufficient for the full play of their sword arms.
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Page 174 - ... diminished ranks, thinned by those thirty guns, which the Russians had laid with the most deadly accuracy, with a halo of flashing steel above their heads, and with a cheer which was many a noble fellow's death-cry, they flew into the smoke of the batteries, but ere they were lost from view the plain was strewed with their bodies and with the carcasses of horses.
Page 169 - Russians advanced down the hill at a slow canter, which they changed to a trot, and at last nearly halted. Their first line was at least double the length of ours — it was three times as deep.
Page 429 - ... oh! with such looks! Many, with legs and arms broken and twisted, the jagged splinters sticking through the raw flesh, implored aid, water, food, or pity, or, deprived of speech by the approach of death, or by dreadful injuries in the head or trunk, pointed to the lethal spot.
Page 174 - As they rushed towards the front, the Russians opened on them from the guns in the redoubt on the right with volleys of musketry and rifles. They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendor of war.
Page 168 - Royal Dragoons. The Light Cavalry Brigade is on their left, in two lines also. The silence is oppressive ; between the cannon bursts one can hear the champing of bits and the clink of sabres in the valley below.
Page 169 - Lordship very sincerely,' was his reply. The Cavalry did not long pursue their enemy. Their loss was very slight, about thirty-five killed and wounded in both affairs. There were not more than four or five men killed outright, and our most material loss was from the cannon playing on our Heavy Dragoons afterwards, when covering the retreat of our Light Cavalry.
Page 174 - They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses ! Surely that handful of men are not going to charge an army in position ? Alas ! it was but too true ; their desperate valour knew no bounds, and far indeed was it removed from its so-called better part — discretion.
Page 167 - ... in a few moments became a solid column. Then up came their guns, in rushed their gunners to the abandoned redoubt, and the guns of No. 2 Redoubt soon played with deadly effect upon the dispirited defenders of No. 3 Redoubt. Two or three shots in return from the earthworks, and all is silent. The Turks swarm over the earthworks, and run in confusion towards the town, firing their muskets at the enemy as they run. Again the solid column of cavalry opens like a fan, and resolves itself into a "...