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THE

WAR IN THE CRIMEA.

OFFICIAL DISPATCHES.

THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA.
(From the London Gazette of Tuesday.)
WAR DEPARTMENT, OCT.IO, 1854.

His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has this day received
two despatches, of which the following are copies, addressed
to his Grace by General Lord Raglan, G.C.B.:—
BALAKLAVA, SEPT. 28.

My Lord Duke,—ln continuation of my despatch of the
23rd inst., I beg leave to lay before your Grace the names
of the officers whose names have been brought to my
notice by the Generals of Division and the heads of
departments.

Lieut.-General Sir George Brown speaks in the highest
terms of Lieut.-Colonel Yea, of the Royal Fusileers ; Lieut.-
Colonel Chester, of the 23rd, who was unfortunately killed,
and of Captain Bell, who succeeded to the command, and
brought the regiment out of action, and Lieut.-Colonel
Blake, of the 33rd ; Lieut.-Colonel Saunders, of the 19th,
who were severely wounded; Lieut.-Colonel Egerton, of
the 77th:Reg,iment, and Lieut.-Colonel Shirley, of the 88th;
also of Lieut.-Colonel Lawrence and Major Norcott,- of the
Rifle Brigade, each commanding a wing of that' corps ;
Lieut.-Colonel Lake, commanding the artillery, of Ciiptain
Brandling, commanding a 9-pounder troop of Horse Artil-
lery, and Captain Anderson, commanding a field battery,
and Captain Gordon, of the Royal Engineers ; likewise of
Lieut.-Colonel Sullivan and Lieut.-Colonel Airey, of the
Adjutant and Quartermaster-Generals Department, and
Captain Hallowell of the latter, and Captain Whitmorei.
and the other officers of his personal staff; and Captains'.
Glyn and Mackenzie, the Brigade-Majors serving with the
division.

Lieut.-General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge recommends Colonel the Hon. Francis Hood, of the
Grenadier Guards, Colonel the Hon: George Upton, of the
Coldstream Guards, and Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton,
of the Scots Fusileer Guards ; Lieut.-Colonel Cameron, of
the 42nd, Lieut.-Colonel Douglas of the 79th, and Lieut.-
Colonel Ainslie, of the 93rd; Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.
Alexander Gordon, and Lieut.-Colonel Cunynghame, the
Assistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General of the
Division, and Major the- Hon. James Macdonald and the
other officers of his personal staff; also Lieut.-Colonel
Daeres, commanding, and Captains Paynter and Wood-
house, of the Royal Artillery, and Captain Chapman of the
Royal Engineers, and Lieut.-Colonel Stirling, and Captain
the Hon. Percy Fielding, theßrigade-Major of the division.
Lieut.-General Sir De Lary Evans eulogizes the conduct
of Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Percy Herbert, of the Quarter-
master-General's Department, who was wounded, I hope
not severely ; Major Lysons, of the 23rd, acting as Assist.-
Adjutant-General in the absence from sickness of Lieut.-
Colonel Wilbraham, Captain. Lane Fox, and Captain
Thompson,. Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant and Quarter-
master-General, and Captain Allix and the-other officers of
his personal staff. He also praises the exertions of Lieut.-
Colonel lioey, of the 30th, Lieut.-Colonel Warren, of the
55th, and Lieut.-Colonel Webber Smith, of the 95th, who
was severely wounded ; Lieut.-Colonel Carpenter, of the
41st ; Lieut.-Colonel Halay, of the 47th ; and Major Dal-
ton, of the 49th ; Lieut.-Colonels Fitzmayer and Dupuis,
and Captains Turner and Swinton,of the Royal Artillery;
and to these I may add Captain, Lovell of the Royal
Engineers; Brevet-Majors Thackwell and Armstrong, the
Brigade-Majors of the division.
I consider it my duty especially to recommend Captain
Adye, of the Royal Artillery, the principal staff-officer of
that branch of the service, and Captain the Hon. Edward
Gage, Brigade-Major of Artillery;. and Major Tylden,
Brigade-Major of the Royal Engineers ; and Major the
Hon. Edward Pakenham, and Captain, Weare, who was
wounded, of the Adjutant-General's-; and of Captains
Wetherall, Woodford, Sankey, and Hamilton, of the Quar-
termaster-General's Department.
_ _ _ _

Mr. Commissary-General Filder and Dr. Hall, the prin-
cipal medical officer, were in the field the whole time, and
merit my approbation for their exertions in discharge of
their onerous duties.—l have, &c., RAGLAN.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c:

THE MARCH TO BALAKLAVA

BALAMTiAVA, SEPT. 28,

Mr LOAD DUKE,—I have the greatest satisfaction in
acquainting your Grace that the army under my command
obtained possession of this important place on the 26th
inst., and thus established a new and seeure base for our
future operations.
The allied armies quitted their position above the Alma
on the morning of the 23d, and moved_aeroes the Kateha,
where they halted for the night, and on the following day
passed the Belbek.
It then appeared that the enemy had-established a work
which commanded the entrance of the river and debarred
its use for the disembarkation of troops, provisions, and
material, and it became expedient to consider whether the
line of attack upon the north side should not be aban-
doned, and another course of operation adopted.
It having, after due deliberation, been determined by
Marshal St. Arnaud and myself that we should relinquish
our communication with the Kateha, and the hope of
establishing it by the Belbek, and; endeavour by a flank
march to the left to go round Sebastopol and seize Balak-
lava, the movement was commenced on the 25th, and com-
pleted on the following day by the capture of this place by
Her Majesty's troops, which led the advance. The march
was attended with great difficulties. On leaving the high
road from the Belbek to Sebastopol the army had to
traverse a dense wood, in which. there was but one road
that led in the direction it was necessary to take. That
road was left in the first instance to the cavalry and artil-
lery ; and the divisions were ordered to march by compass,
and make a way for themselves as well as they could; and,
indeed, the artillery of the Light Division pursued the
same course as long as it was found to be possible, but,
as the wood became more impracticable, the batteries
could not proceed otherwise than by getting into the road
above-mentioned.

The head-quarters of the army, followed by several
batteries of artillery, were the first to clear the forest, near
what is called in Major Jarvis's map " Mackenzie's Farm,"
and at once found themselves on the flank and rear of a
Russian division, on the march to Bakshiserai.
This was attacked as soon as the cavalry, which had
diverged a little into a by and intricate path, could be
brought up. A vast quantity of ammunition and muoh
valuable baggage fell into our hands, and the pursuit was
discontinued after about a mile and a-half, it being a great
object to reach the Tchernaya that evening.

The Russians lost a few men, and some prisoners were
taken, among whom was a captain of artillery.
The march was then resumed by the descent of a steep
and difficult defile into the plains, through which runs the
Tchernaya River, and this the cavalry succeeded in reach-
ing shortly before dark, followed in the course of the night
by the Light, First, Second, and Third Divisions ; the
Fourth Division having been left on the heights above the
Balbek till the following day, to maintain our communica-
tion with the Katcha.
This march, which took the enemy quite by surprise,
was a very long and toilsome one, and, except at Macken-
zie's Farm, where two wells, yielding a scanty supply,
were found, the troops were without water ; but they
supported their fatigues and privations with the utmost
cheerfulness, and resumed their march to this place on the
morning of the 26th.
As they approached Balaklava nothing indicated that it
was held in force ; but, as resistance was offered to the
' advance of the Rifle Brigade, and guns were opened from
an old castle as the head of the column showed itself on
the road into the town, I deemed it prudent to occupy the
two flanking heights by the Light Division and a portion
of Captain Brandling's troop of Horse Artillery on the
left,—movements terminated by the surrender of the place,
which had been occupied by very inconsiderable numbers
of the enemy.

Shortly after we had taken possession we were greeted
by Captain Mends, of the Agamemnon, and soon after by
Sir Edmund Lyons himself.

His co-operation was secured to us by the activity and
enterprise of Lieut. Mane, of Her Majesty's ship Aga-
memnon, who reached my camp on tjle Tchernaya on the-
night of the 25th with despatches, Ind who volunteered
immediately to retrace his steps through the forest, and to
communicate to Sir Edmund the importance I attached to
his presence at the mouth of the harbour of Balaklava the
next morning, which difficult service (from the intricacy
of the country, infested by Cossacks,) he accomplished so
effectually that the Admiral was enabled to appear off this
harbour at the very moment that our troops showed them-
selves upon the heights.
Nothing could be more opportune than his arrival, and
yesterday the magnificent ship that bears his flag entered
this beautiful harbour, and the Admiral, as has been his
invariable practice, co-operated with the army in every
way possible.
We are busily engaged in disembarking our siege train
and provisions, and we are most desirous of undertaking
the attack of Sebastopol without the loss of a day. I
moved up two divisions yesterday to its immediate neigh-
bourhood, when I was enabled to have a good view of the
place ; and Lieut.-General Sir John Burgoyne and General
Bisot, the French Chef de Gdnie, are occupied in recon-
noitering it closely to-day.
The march of the French army on the 25th was still
more fatiguing and prolonged than ours. Being behind
our columns they could not reach Tchernaya till the next
day, and I fear must have suffered sadly from want of
water.

I regret to have to acquaint your Grace that Marshal
St. Arnaud has been compelled, by severe illness, to re-
linquish the command of the army. I saw him on the
25th, when he was suffering very much, and he felt it his
duty to resign the next morning. I view his retirement
with deep concern, having always found in him every dis-
position to act in concert with me. He has since become
much worse, and is, I fear, in a very precarious state.
Fortunately he is succeeded by an officer of high repu-
tation, General Canrobert, with whom I .am satisfied I
shall have great pleasure in acting, and who is equally
desirous of maintaining the most friendly relations with
me.—l have, &c., RAGLAN.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c.

ADMIRALTY DESPATCHES

(Copy, No. 498.)

BRITANNIA, OPP THE KATCIIA, SEPT. 28,

Sir,—l beg you will acquaint the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty that, by the request of his Excellency
General Lord Raglan, I have ordered 1,000 Marines of
the fleet to be lent to the Agamemnon, in the harbour of
Balaklava, to relieve a similar number of the British