The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09

ness So. too. did Campbell. VINO in
stanny detected his lire so as to protect
his right, and met the advance with de-
structive yoiley, before which the Russian
horsemen al once fen back.
Al that moment an officer rode al a break
neck pace down the hin from Lord Rag
ian 70 whene the British cavalry were
drawn up on the base Of che hills below,
surveying The whole field as mere benev-
olent spectators. lie had occurred 10 Lord
Raglan that his cavalry might b. used
TO assist his infantry, and eight squad
rous of the Heavy Brigage We're ordered
TO move of TO support the Highlaaders.
The squadruus moved Oft promptly IN
der Gen. Scarlet having The Causeway
Heights on the left The men were pick
ing their way across the membranes
of their own camp when Scarlefs aide
de-camD, Elliott happered to cast his
eyes to the ridge COD yards distant to The
left, and saw its top fretted with lances
and the whole skyline broken by moving
squadr0ns. These 60 British troopers, in
a word, were moving across the front Of
body Of Russian cavalry, 5000 strong,
and had not The least idea of the .ir-
cumstances until the cnemys squa1rons
looked down on their flank within strik-
ing distance, Kinglake. who was an ac-
tual spectator of the fight says that the
huge mass of hostile cavalry as at The
sound Of trumpet with all the weight Of
its thousands. il began TO descend the hill
side, showed acreage rather than NUM-
bers." The Russians were clothed, as a
rule, IN long gray oyercOats and gray by
its mere mass-as is seen in sky or sea-
has almost The effect OF blackness. And
across this back, threatening. steadily
moving mass was drawn, in the valley be-
low. at q distance Of some GOO yards, TIE
vivid or of EDplfah cavalry
the Grays, with their white horses and
bearsSin caps, the Innskillings with gleam-
ing helmets Scarlet was a white-whis-
kered red-faced soldier. So years old a
delightfully."- simple minded warrior who
had never heard a shot fired in anger But
as he looked up and saw the huge threat
ening mass on his flank, with the instinct
of brave man he took the one possible
course. Left wheel into line he shout
ed. The men swung round instantly, fac
ed the Russian front, and quietly moved
forward. Two squadrons of Grays and one
Of tnnskilings forming the front line.
The ground was rough with the debris
Of a camp part OF the British cavalry,
too. had to cross the site of an old vine-
yard. bristling with vine stumps aud grid
led by a ditch BY the time they cleared
all this the ranks were somewhat disor-
dercd. and the company officers commence
III 10 niteS AutlI 4ltlt- tulH was a haAii-
~ process for 300 cavalry, with huge
mass nearly ten times their strength, 600
yards off, and hanging like a threatening
cloud on the hill above them, ready TO
burst in overwhelming tempest The Rus
slams moved steadily down 10 within 400
yards Of Scarlett's line, aud then spasm
Of doubt seemed to run through the mass.
1t hated. The beat of trampiing hoofs
died away. The officers Of the Grays were
stil with their backs turned cOOlly to the
enemy. dainuly dressing" the lines of
their men, and under that treatment the
mems tsmpers were growing slightly vel
cauic. The Inniskillings had clear
stretch Of grass before them, ana the pas
sion to charge thrilled in the men so
flerceiy that Scarlett could only restrain
the line by waving it back with his sword
The troop resembled a high-bred horse
chatting at the curb for a start.
Scarlet saw the huge mass above him,
aud outfanking his so enormously. draw
TO a halt. JUST as the dressing Of his own
lines vas completed His trumpeter rang
out stern and clear the signal to charge"
ana Scarlet himself mounted on a horse
of great speed and size led against the
enemy al a trot, which after few
yards quiekened TO a gallop. His troops,
still hindered by broken ground, could not
come on SO swiftly, and there was the
anna zlug spectacle presented of a red-faced
British general galloping headlong and
alone into a gigantic mass of Russian
cavalry his aide-de-camp trumpeter, and
orderly following hard on his rear and
moIe than nifty yards behind some 300
Grays and 1nniskillings just getting into
their stride. Scarlet himself hourishing
his sword. drove deep into the Russian
mass Elliot, his aide-de-camp, a splendid
sworGeman, came next. and a Russian
officer. sitting on his horse a few PAGES
in front of the line, struck furlously at
him as he swept Up. Elliot PARTED the
cut, dropped his sword point to the thrust,
drove 1t through the body of his antagon-
ist, and, as the rush u his horse carried
him onward, the Russian was literally
turned round in his saddle by the lever
age of the sword thrust clean through
him. Then. as his sword was released,
with a fash of the crimson blade, Elliot,
too, broke through the Russian line.
How eagerly the three squadrons follow
ing were, by this time, riding, may be inn
agined. The 1nnskillings on the right as
the Russian line came withins word-stroke
broke into a shout. sudden, loud and me-
uaciug. Grey and Inniskniing had not rid
den side by side since the great charge at
Waterloo. and the men of 1854 were as gall
lant as the men of 1915. When before
indeed, was ever seen a spectacle OF 300
men ganoping up hill TO charge 5000? AS
the squadrons loosened in the gallon the
men in the second line seized the oppor-
tunty afforded by every interval to add