APPENDIX. 4 1 1 Summary. Hussian forces at the commencement of the action. Opposed to the Frencli, English, In reserve, . Total, . 96 39,251
- ^* The changes which took place in the course of the
action are duly indicated by the last foregoing footnote. Guns. Men. 10 10,387 68 23,142 18 5,722 NOTE III. Note respecting the Operations of the 7th, the Eoyal Fusiliers. Written, it would seem, with the help of information deriving from Sir George Brown, the ' Quarterly Review ' has this statement : — ' While this was going on upon the left of Codrington's
- brigade, the right, consisting of the 33d and 7th, gal-
' lantly attacked the Russian infantry which protected the
- battery and the Eedan, The battle was not fought, how-
' ever, as iIr Kinglake would have us believe. Lacy Yea ' and his gallant Fusiliers did just as well, but not one ' whit better, than Colonel Blake and his equally gallant
- 33d. The personal exploits of Lacy Yea, Mr Kinglake's
' particular jyi-otege, are about as authentic as those of ' Homer's heroes, and so is the long fight maintained by ' him and his men against five or six times their number ' of Piussian troops. The two regiments went forward to-
- gether, Codrington leading them on. * They drove back
- This was a mistake of Sir George's. Codrington was not with the
7th Fusiliers. He, as we saw, led the 23d and the other troops with theia Btraight into the redoubt.
