Note 155 — THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 20th. September, 1854.
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As an instance of this, the following circumstance has been narrated to the author by an officer, who, on following the second division up the heights after the battle, found a poor fellow that had escaped untouched by the enemy’s fire, dying of cholera. He offered the man a drop of brandy, who refused it, saying, “It’s too late, sir, there is no use wasting it on me.”