Note 160 — ACTION AT BALAKLAVA. 25th. October, 1854.
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“The English cavalry, commanded by Lord Cardigan, had attacked our brigade of hussars (6th. Cavalry Division), with extraordinary impetuosity, but being themselves assailed in flank by four squadrons of our combined regiment of Lancers, they were thrown back, while the artillery of the 12th. and 16th. divisions fired after them with canister, and the Lancers with their carbines.”
“The English cavalry, while charging our hussars, succeeded in penetrating to the battery of Don Cossacks, No. 3, and cut down some of its gunners.”—Extract from Prince Menschikoff’s despatch, dated 25th. October, 1854.
“The enemy’s attack was most pertinacious; he charged our cavalry in spite of the grape fired with great precision from six guns of the light battery, No. 7, in spite of the fire of the skirmishers of the regiment “Odessa,” and of a company of the fourth battalion of “Tirailleurs,” that stood on the right wing, and even unheeding the artillery of General Yabokritski.”—General Liprandi’s report to Prince Menschikoff, 26th. October, 1854.