41 S APPENDIX Lord Lucan to General Scarlett, December 18, 1854.- Extract. ' I did not consider it fitting specially to name him ' [Lieutenant Elliot] in my report. . . . I do not con- ' sider that it would have been justice towards regimental ' officers specially to name all Staff officers, and I think ' that the obvious consequences of such general and indis- 1 criminate * recommendations would be that but little ' value would be attached to general officers' requests, and ' that the claims of all would suffer.' General Scarlett recommended Elliot for the Victoria Cross, and the application was refused on the plea that to charge and fight hand to hand was nothing more than the duty of a cavalry officer. NOTE VII. The Strength ok thh Body of Russian Cavalry dndbb General Ryjoff which engaged General Scarlett's Brigade. It is right to say that the work prepared under the auspices of General de Todleben puis the strength of the force which met Scarlett at only MOO ; but since the com- piler discloses the basis of that computation, his error does not mislead. Finding that the cavalry at this time had
- Certainly F.ord Lncnn (lisc.riininn.ted, and discriminated, as 1 believe,
wit.liont, acting from 'favour and affection,' but still so infelicitous]^ tii.it. he named and commended in bis despatch ln's own first aide-de-
