182 THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA. ci! a p. before might have been likened to the closed fist ' of the pugilist, was changed, all at once, to a hand with the two centre fingers retracted and the other two fingers protruding.* Lord Raglan perceived that in the compass of those brilliant minutes which had been used to such purpose by Scar- lett's dragoons, they had done the main part of his appointed task by almost winning a battle for him without the aid of a single foot- soldier or horseman sent clown from the main Allied camp. Lord What he instantly sought to do was, to seize on impose! the victory which this cavalry fight seemed to open to him by proceeding at once to the recap- ture of the Causeway Heights. The arrangements for the recovery of the heights had been made, as we saw, long ago, several hours before the occurrence which had now so much lightened the task ; and, if the requisite marches of our infantry divisions had attained completion, Sir George Cathcart, at the head of the 4th Divi- sion, would have been ready to advance against the Arabtabia-f* Redoubt by the line of the Cause- way ridge ; whilst H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge with the 1st Division would have supported the attack by moving along the South Valley. The Duke of Cambridge, it would seem, had lost no time in obeying the order, and was as far in advance towards his assigned place as Lord Raglan ex- pected him to be; | but Cathcart unhnppily was
- The diagram on the next page may aid the elucidation.
t The redoubt also called Number Three. + He moved his infantry by a route not far south of the WoronzofF Road, bul his artillery descended by the Col.
