in flunk. 208 BATTLE OK THE ALMA. cii A P. strove to lead it on to a charge with the bayonet.* ^' But he could do nothing ; for, because of the dis- order already" beginning, and the loss of great numbers of its officers, the heart was nearly out of the column. 7 So, giving orders for the bat- talions to keep up their fire, he rode away to his right and left the column still engaged with Yea and his Fusiliers. The 55th When Prince Gortscliakuff had ridden off, the tiicrohimn columu was assailcd by fresh adversaries. After crossing the river, Colonel Warren, we saw, pressed on with the 55th regiment extended in line, and his men in that order were advancing np the Pass when he saw on his left front the colunm engaged with Lacy Yea's Fusiliers. Colonel War- ren instantly caused his regiment to Itring for- ward their right shoulders, and in fact to wheel
- Tliis statement is founded, as will be seen below, ipon a
narrative written by Prince Gortscliakofi' himself ; but it inter- ested me to hear, as I lately did from an ofTicer in the Royal Fusiliers, a statement coinciding exactly (so far as it goes) with the Prince's narrative. Sir Tlioraas Troubvidge, M'lio was the Major commanding the right wing of the Fusiliers, told me he remembered that after the fight between the column and the Fusiliers had been going on a long time, he saw a horse- man with some mounted followers— evidently, as he conceived, a General and his stalF — ride down and join the column. — Xotc to i(h Edition. t What Prince GortschakofT says is this : ' I first rode to-
- wards the chasseurs' (meaning the Kazan troops), 'who were
• standing finn under a very lieavy fire, although losing a large ' amount of men. I first tried to lead them on (S, la baionette), ' but finding that they could not re-form immediately for a ' charge, and had lost nearly all their officers, I left them with •orders to continue their feu de bataillons.' — Kote to 1st Edition.
