New-York tribune., 1912-01-28

uvos three wears old the elder Baynes loon
bic family hack 10 England, where he care
fuI1v attended to the education of his son.
who received the training customarhS
given gentleman's son in England In tla'
6av Mr.. Baynes was born August ?. lS0o'
ard hence is seventysiX years old.
vvealtby uncle purchased a commission Oh
cornet in the English army for him at the
outbreak of the war in the Crimea, Wheh
he was eighteen years old, making MN
one of the youngest commissioned onncers
in that conflict.
~ never shall forget the bleak, forbidding
capes and stern promontories OF the Crl-
mean coast as they appeared TO the lnVau-
ing troops. who had entered the Black sea
bv way of the Golden Horn, at Constantl-
nopIe.' - said the old veteran, Frightening as
he remembered what to him was but an
adventure.
THE ARRIVAL AT BAlAkLAVA.
..AJost of the transports and warships
had left the sickly harbor of Varna' where
,,vster,ous scourge had fallen upon the
troops. creating great havoc among the
English forces for a time. We cast anchor
off the inlet of Balaklava, which, thoush
small was capable of taking the largest
warships sent by the English government
our Decentralization was made quite uhoP-
posed. on September IA, 1904 ana py ire
18th the entire force of the Allies consist
ing of the English. French ana TURKISH
forces had established themselves on Rus
sian soil in the peninsula or Crlmea' Az
though il was impossible at that time 10
unload much of the, baggage OF the SOL
diers, we nevertheless seized about three
hundred and fifty aTabas, or native wagons,
of the Tartars who inhabit the steppes bacK
of the coast, using them TO convoy the
munitions and rations. thousand cattle
and sheep, with poultry fruit and Vege-
tables. were seized, belonging to the hostile
tribes.
THE first battle of any consequence III
which | engaged before the fight on the
Balaklava plain was the battle of the Alma,
or. as II is called in the native language,
the Apple probably on account OF the
splendid apples which grow in the valleys
along rivers sheltered by the mountains
He hesitated for a moment trying to re-
member the date of the battle of the Alma.
81 think" he said, slowly. 1T was on the
18th or the Goth of September" History
records that it was on September 20.
Nillle lllt l4lEIl ApllAdN' WV '''N '''''N >"
very active part in the battle, as most OF
the lighting was done by the infantry, we
nevertheless saw some sharp skirmishing
in the battle. which cost the Russians
about six thousand men and the English
about three thousand killed and wounded
Two days were spent on the Alma wheh
we buried our dead. The march around
Sebastopol was a hard one, the high
grassy steppes affording little water for
either horses or men. My own charger
suffered terribly for water, on one part OF
the march going for nearly forty-eight
hours without water" The grizzled fighter
gave a vivid description of the appearance
of the towers and forts about the splendid
port of Sebastopo practically the only city
in the Crimea.
The weather during the months of Sep
tember and October was delightful; the
days were not cold, seeming to be about
such weather as in the United States Is
called Indian summer. The siege of Sc
baStopol properly began a number Of days
before the battle of Balaklava was fought.
All the non-cOmbatants and all the citizens |
of the town had been slipped out of Sc |
bastopol in the night, and the population |
left was composed entirely OF hardened |
fighting men, who had sufficient rations |
for an indefinite time and whose fortifica-
tions were exceptional Their garrison con- |
sisted Of about twenty-five thousand |
trained men. The day of the nth Of Oc-
tober, eight days before the charge of
Balaklava, witnessed the most terrific
bombardment that had been known in war
fare up to that time, but eebastopol did
not yet fall.
The cavalry not being Of any use in
the neighborhood of Sebastopol were led
| toward the Uplands, as they were called,
| the hills above the struggling village OF
Balakava. about the Tchernaya River.
The march was made only after many
maneuvres and skirmishes, none Of which
| could well he called battle,
The battle of Balakava really began at
daybreak on the morning of the 18th of Oc-
tober. The early skirmishes had been I'm
| favor of the Russians. and a number Of
. English Notifications in the neighborhood
Of Balaklava had been carried Heavy
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