The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-17
FAMOUS WAR HORSE.
He Led the Charge of the Light
-. ArIPnIe."

6rIgade."
From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The noted white Arabian steed ridden
by Capt. Nolan in the charge of the Light
Brigade at the memorable battle of Baa-
klava of the Crimea, was quartered for
several years in the. immediate vicinity.
of Cincinnati, and died a natural death
at a ripe old age in the neighborhood of
Morrow. 0.
When the laundering order for the
charge of the Light Brigade was given
Capt. Nolan was in command. As the
men charged into the valley of death"
Nolan, on his conspicuous white Arab,
spurred far in advance of ala fine mark
for a Russian rlheman. With his sword
high uplifted and a cheer on his lips he
was struck in the breast by a fragment
Of shell, thrown in the Russians first
discharge, and instantly killed. His sword
dropped from his hand, but the arm re-
tanned its upright position and his LETT
hand the bride rein, as his horse in,
stinctively turned back, and gallCped to-
ward the brigade. As the files opened to
let him pass an uuearthly Shrek rent
the air, said by some to have been the
last ACCOUNTING cry of Nolan, in a vain Ell
fort to turn the brigade from its i'm
pending doom, but thought by others to
be the result of no human will, but due
rather to those "spasmodic forces which
may act upon the form when life has
ceased"
Straight into the Russian guns, which
We're opened full upon them, dashed tn.
brigade, and then they rode back; bu;
not, not the six hundred" The immense
loss was only counterbalanced," says
one, by the brlliance of the attack and
the 01ll9OtrV order and JiSciDIipa w
distinguished It,"
The remnant of the Light Brigade was
sent over to Quebec 10 recuperate, and
with them Nolan's white Arab, with two
slight saber cuts in his side. He carried
the marks to his death After his mas,
ters death the horse was called Nolan.
While in Quebec Lester Taylor, a whole>
sale cotton merchant of Cincinnati, pur-
chased him and brought him to Cincin-
natl, where he shortly afterward sold him
TO August lie Broot
lie Broot was a Frenchman. The LIE
Boots owned a pretty summer house at
South Covington, KY, on the cliffs Of Lick
ing river and now known as Dinmore
park. Luxurious quarters We're fitted up
for Nolan. A French Zouave was brought
from France to care expressly for him
and handsome Jet black stallion, called
Sultan, purchased in Algiers by Mr.. LIE
Broot on one Of his numerous trips to
ture, fifteen and a half hands high, snow
white, with name and tail like strands of
Furnished silver, and nostrils like pink
satin; fleet as the wind under the sad
dle-the only use to which he was put
with swinging, easy gait most inviting
to the equestrian lover; high spirited, yet
gentle withal as fawn. Both sSolan and
Sultan were regularly exercised in a ring
laid out on one part of the grounds for
that purpose So docile was Nolan that
the two little daughters of the house
were much given to climbing upon his
back during this exercise. If either chanc-
ed to slip and fall beneath the feet of the
horse while in motion he would stop in
stantly, and, with the zouave's cry to the
child, "Tranquiel, tranquiel," meaning be
quiet would with rare intelligence, bend
| his head and carefully push the little
one from his path.
| On one of the ravaging expeditions of
the Union troops stationed al Fort Mitch
| ell, few miles distant from the LIE Broot
residence both horses were taken from
! the stables. Mr.. lie Broot was away from
| home. Upon his return, with the mpetu-
! osity and decisive action of the typical
| Frenchman, he started at once with his
| ZouaVe in hot pursuit of the animals.
! Some four miles from home he came across
them,4 tethered and in charge of a subal-
| tern. lie Broot covered the man with his
| pistols while the Zouave softly secured the
! horses. He then directed the latter to take
| them across the Ohio river, into Brown
| county, Ohio he himself riding on into
! Covington, KY, and straight to the old
Planters house, where the commanding
officer of the troops. Gen. Stanhope, was
stopping. There he defantly challenged
the generals interference in the case.
Nothing came of the affair, however, and,
after time, the horses We're returned to
their old quarters. Loath to dispose OF
Nolan and not wishing to ship him to
France, lie Broot left him for some
months to the care of Col. Mason, finally
pensioning him TO a farm near Morrow,
O., where he lived his life out in peaceful
retirement.