CHAP. XXV.
CHAPTER XXV.
Early in the afternoon. Lord Raglan, riding in The affair of the Bulganak advance of the infantry divisions, had reached the banks of the river, and, observing a groupof Cossacks on the brow of the hill towards the south, he ordered the squadrons which Lord Cardigan had with him[1] to move forward and reconnoitre the ground. Lord Lucan was present with this portion of his cavalry force.
Where the post-road from Eupatoria to Sebastopol crosses the Bulganak, the ground on the south side of the river rises gradually for some hundreds of yards from the banks of the stream, then dips a little, then rises again, then dips rather deeply, and then again rises up to the summit of the ridge which bounds the view of an observer in the valley of the Bulganak.
Our reconnoitring squadrons went forward a great way into the lower dip, and when they were there, it was perceived that, confronting them from the hill above, there was a body of cavalry 2000 strong. Our four squadrons halted
- ↑ The 11th Hussars and 13th Light Dragoons.
