THE MAIN FIGHT. 247 lying in his blood, half- blinded and liitheito (jiiap. tlisabled, caught new life all at once I'rom the ' sound, was able to rise, was able to stand, was able ^Period. to throw himself into the torrent of the soldiery of troops now bursting its bounds. Except some ninety Battery. or a hundred men, restrained by the commands and entreaties of the Duke of Cambridge, and standing fast by the colours, scarce any resisted the impulse. The soldiery standing near Cham- pion made haste to follow his counsel. Car- michael led out his mixed band from the left flank of the Battery. Lieutenant Alexander Macdonald, the Adjutant of the 95th, rode out through the left embrasure.* Whether climbing over the parapet, or pouring through its two embrasures, or swirling round by its flanks, the bulk of the Grenadier Guards and other inter- mixed soldiery within the work stormed out upon the ledge ; and then — not resulting directly from fire, nor from steel, but rather from a Flight and moment's despair on the one side, and on the ortiie • -nn 1 , T n- 1 Russians in other a passionate will — ail seemed to be night front of the , . T-, . T _ T Battery. and pursuit ; Russian masses descending tJie steeps in headlong confusion — p]nglish soldiery tearing down in full chase with a vehemence hard to control. Of the enemy's visible masses in this part of column the field the only one not yet in flight was a element's
- An account of the strange ordeal tlirougli which this
indomitable officer passed when he afterwards fell wounded into the hands of the enemy will be found in the Appendix, Note VIII.
