Year: 1868

French and English and Turks had gathered to W.T.
ness the marvellous deed of arms that was about to
take place By the side of Scarett rode Elliot his
aide-decamp, and there were two horsemen close III
his rear, a trumpeter and an orderly.


"scarlett well knew how much all depended upon
striking at the encmy's masses while yet they stoou
halted and so far as concerned his own orders he was
hardly I'm the humor for travelling through a the anterior
stages He turned to his trumpeter and said at once
Sound the charge!


"While the notes were still peaing and before they
could take full effect upon the squadrons behind him.
searlett moved forward at trO; and although the I'M
pedmcnts of the camping ground made 1t necessary FORA


rider In this the first part OF tho onset 70 pick his way
with some care yet the horse Scaret rode was horse OF
such stride and power that his rate OF advance was not
slow even over the obsTucted grounds and as soon as
the clear field which at length gained enabled the
leader get into gaop the distance between him ana
his squadrons was swiftly increased. In few moments
he was so far In advance Of them that Elliot judged IL
right to call the attention the chief to the position OF
his squadrons Those squadrOns by this time ad'
vancing but the impediments Of the camping-grounu
proved OF obstrucng to the sered ranks OF
Che Greys than horseman with only one companion
and two attendants scaret could not question that the
distance between him and his squadrons had become ex-
travagantly great; but still Judging, he had judged
from the first that 1t Of vital moment to strike the
enemys column while halted he rather desired 10 acce
crate Greys than much to retard his own pace lhere
FORE still pressing forward though not quite so swiftly as
before he turned partly round in his saddle shouted out
a Come onp to the GGeys, and invoked them Win
wave Of his sword.


"when the squadrons attained to clear ground they
began to reduce the space which divided them from their
leader but it computed that at the moment OF scar
lcts first contact with the enemys column the distance
between him and the sQuadrons which followed him was
still, at the least, fifty yards.


"The Brigader now found himself nearing the front Of
apdtl
at which carett thus rode marked by the presence
of Russian officer who erect in his very hit but un-
til the next moment, When Eot's charger had ruShed
past the weapon though held fast by It's owner still could
not be withdrawn. Thence 1t resulted that the Russian
officer was turned s saddle by the leverage OF
the which translxed him. In the next instant,
Elliot still rushing forward with great impetus, drove
column between the two troopers who most nearly
confronted him. and them with rocking sword,
began ceavng his way through the ranks Shegog ana
the trumpeter crashing in after; so that not only
Scarlet himself but all the three hOrsemen who cons
tutcd his immediate following, engufed IN the
column"


Steadily and CALAMITY the squadrons of tho Scots
Greys and the Inniskng Dragons followed their
leader


"Wth rolling prOlongaton Of clangor which resulted
from the bends Of line deformed by its speed, the


three hundred crashed in upon the front Of the column
They crashed In so weghtiy that cavalry extended
in line and halted could have withstood the shock If 1t
had been able to shrink and fall back; but whatever
might be their inclination, the frOntrank men OF the
Russian column debarred, saw from all means
of breaking away the by the weight Of their own
serrled squadrons slopng up the hillside close behind
them and it being for them to evade the concus
sion by flight they had choice-it was cruel
trial cavalry have to endure at the haltthey had
no choice but to await and suffer the onslaught"


"These horsemen could not fall back under the
impact Of the charge and the other hand they ala
not so plant themselves be each OF them directly
opposing hnderance assaant They found and took


third course. They accepted the files Here there
and almost everywhere along the assaed part Of the
column the troopers who stood In front rank so sided
and shrank that they suffered the Grey or the Innisk


nger to tear between them with the license accorded
to cannonba which Is seen to be coming and must not
be obsructed summed So although by their charge
these few hOrsemen could deliver no blow OF such weight
as TO shake depths of column extending far mp the
hillside they more less shvered sundered the front
rank Of the mass and then by dnt Of sheer wedgework
and ghtiug, they opened and cut their way IN IL was
in the nature of things that at some parts OF the line the
hnderance should greater than at others but speak
ing general terms it be said that as Scarlet had
led his first line righteousy folowed and that within


brief space from the moment Of the first crash, the


three hundred after or less strife, were received
into the enemy's column"


OF the fight that then went on between the Three
Hundred engulfed in Two Thousand foes we can
neither condense nor give sufficient account. par
agraph or two must serve to show the quality Of the
strife that ragged:


"In some parts OF tho column the combatants so
closely locked be almost unable for while TO give
the to their charges and wherever the
relocated hOrsoman thus found himself nwedged and
surrounded by assaants 1t only by the swifcrclng


moune by an almost ceaseless play Of his saber whirl
ing round and round overhead and by selling now and
then an occasion for a thrust cut that he was able
10 keep himself among the living; but the horse, 1t
seems during these stationary fights instnctvey sought
and found shelter for his head by bending 1t down, and
leaving free for the saber to circle and clash over
head At other places-for the most part perhaps In
those OF space which constituted by the usual


intervals and distances intersecting the massthere
was so much more freedom OF movement that groups OF
as many twelve Russians who had fallen out OF
their would be here and there devOtng them
selves to purpose by confederatng themselves
were against particular foes, and endeavoring
overwhem the knot OF two three Greys or Inniskl


fingers which they deemed TO be the most in their power
Where this occurred, the two three redcoats
less separated from each other would be seen striving to
force their way through the before the and at
tended on their anks and In their rear by band Of
saants who did not most commonly, succeed In over
pOwerng the tall horsemen but persisted nevertheless In
hanging upon them. Our troopers, thus encompassed,
srove hard may well supposed to down the foes
within reach; general the saber seemed almost tore
bound like cudge from the thick gray outercoat OF the
Russian hOrsemen and upon the whole there was result
ing as yet but little carnage from this singular example
Of fight between heavy column of halted cavalry and
the knots of the taller horsemen who irving deep
er and deeper"


But if the battle was hot with some of the Three
Hundred who fought together, how Jared it with
Gems. Scarlet and Elliot, whom we saw burst into
the Russians almost alOnef


"Cose wedged from the first in an enemys column and
on all sides hemmed In by the Russians, lie neither