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THE CRIMEA.—The intelligence from the seat of war consists of the full despatches of the English, French, and Russian Commanders, giving an account of the bloody action on the 5th November ; and the usual private letters illustrating the public despatches. For some days previously, Russian troops bad been seen by Lord Rag- lan gathering in force on the Tchernaya ; and it was obvious that large reinforcements, accompanied by some persons of high rank, had joined the army under Prince Mensehikoff. According to. General Canrobert, who derived his information from deserters, the reinforcements consisted of marines from Nicholaieff, troops from Kertch, Kaffir; and "the coast of Asia" ; four battalions of Cossacks from the Black Sea ; and three divisions of the fourth corps, hastily moved up in carriages, from Odessa, under the command of General Dannenberg the defeated of Oltenitza. The correspondent of the Morning Herald was at Balaklava on the morning of the 4th, looking on the enemy's masses, 35,000 strong, drawn up out of range of the English lines, when a sentry from a higher point reported that another large army was moving up the plain. Hurrying up the hill, the writer found the report was true : he saw " huge dark masses of Russian infantry, with long glittering lines of cave/0y upon the flanks, pouring along the plain to the North." Seeking a better point of view, he got within a thousand yards.
The Russians moved along in open columns, with perfect regularity. "They appeared to have artillery enough for 200,000 men." Moving under the base of the heights manned by our troops, they entered the valley of the Tchernaya, crossed it, and were joined by about 5000 in- fantry from the North of Sebastopol. After surveying our position from the heights near Inkerman Light, they again entered the valley and took up their quarters for the night. The whole number near Balaklava and on the Tchernaya this witness estimates at 80,000 men. This magnifi- cent display was the prelude to the battle on the 5th. Elated by the arrival of these reinforcements, Prince Menschikoff determined to assail the right of the English position.
The British position extends to the termination of the North-eastern heights overlooking the valley of Inkerman, and sloping on the West towards Sebastopol. A road, crossing the Inkerman valley, and the stream by a bridge, runs up the heights into the British rear. A little on its right, a small ;edoubt had been constructed for two guns ; but the guns were not in position on the 5th. To the left of the road, as far as the extreme Lancaster battery on our right attack, the ground was broken with ravines and covered with thick brushwood. The greater part of the hill below the two-gun battery was loose and stony ; but within about a hundred yards of the redoubt it becomes tangled and covered with thick brushwood. Facing the hill, and overtopping it on the North, is a cor- responding headland. It was this hill, so steep that to take guns up seemed impossible, which the Russians occupied with guns. Across the Inkerman road, about a quarter of a mile from our encampment, and a mile from the two-gun battery, runs a long low stone wall. It was in this position, contracted to a front of about a mile and a half, that the battle of the 5th was fought.* The enemy's plan appears to have been to make a feigned attack upon Balaklava and a real attack upon the right. Working hard all night long,. the Russian engineers carried guns up the hill dominating our position, and planted an immense array of artillery on other points. The night was wet, and a fog aggravated the darkness. In silence the Russians closed round our position, and climbed stealthily up the heights. Long before daybreak, the sounds of movement in the valley near Balaklava drew a cannonade from our lines, to which the Russians replied. They even moved up towards the trenches occupied by the Zouaves ; and both sides fired ineffectual trollies through the mist. At the first sound of the cannon, our soldiers in the camp turned out ; but, uncertain whether the enemy would come on to the rear or to the right, they did not move. A strong picket of the Fifty-fifth held the two-gun redoubt ; and while they watched the cannonade going on at Balaklava, they beard a rumbling era of men and guns below them. The real nature of the attack was rendered more doubtful. A fire of ten guns broke out through the mist from the steep hill commanding our right, while the cannonade at Balaklava re- doubled, and the batteries in the defences of Sebastopol opened fire.
• In our attempt to describe the positions, we assume that the reader is somewhat familiar with the maps : if not, he will do well to consult " Stanford's new map of Sebastopol and the surrounding country, November 1854. compiled from the new Ad- miralty Charts and authentic Sketches by Captain Wetherell, D.A-Q.M.G., and other Officers." Publiabed by Mr. Stanford, of Charing Cross. "The scene at this moment was awful. The whole camp, except to the sea, seemed encircled by fire, as flash after flash lit up the fogy air in all directions. The uproar was perfectly deafening ; for our battenes began to reply, and both sides firing shell increased the din twofold. The shower of these terrible explosives, which rained into the camp like hail, baffies descrip- tion. No place was safe from them. They killed men and tore the tents to pieces on places which we had hitherto considered as utterly out of range. Every minute or so, you were compelled to throw yourself upon your face as the terrible missile came roaring through the air, and, pitching within a few yards, sent its fragments humming over the spot where you crouched close to the earth. For about ten minutes, the stunning noise, confusion, and in- cessant bursting of shells, made the whole place seem perfectly unearthly. The horror of the scene was increased by the obscurity of the morning. It was not six o'clock ; the darkness and fog were still thick ; and through the heavy air the broad red flashes of the guns and their tremendous reports seemed ten times louder than ever. For all that could be seen or told to the contrary, the Russian batteries seemed within fifty yards of you on all sides. Of course, the troops remained under arms, but did not attempt to move every one knew that before the real attack commenced the artillery would cease and the sharp crackling fire of musketry begin. Until that was heard, there was no knowing on which of the three points the enemy intended to advance. The report of the muskets was therefore anxiously listened for ; and it soon was heard."
The picket in the two-gun redoubt kept under cover; but soon they heard the tramp of infantry, and found a column of 5000 or 6000 Rus- sians close upon them. Reserving their fire, they defended the work with desperate energy, until half-surrounded by overwhelming numbers ; when they fell back fighting to the second picket, placed behind the wall: then both joined ; and two regiments of the Second Division coming up, and firing on the Russian flank, the whole deployed into line, and, charging, drove the Russians out of and beyond the redoubt. Such was the beginning of the battle.
The army was now getting into position. General Pennefather, command- ing during the illness of General Evans, moved the Second Division into position. The fortunate watchfulness of General Codrington brought the Light Division rapidly to the front ; Buller's brigade falling in on the left of the Second Division, and Codrington descending the slopes to- wards our Lancaster battery ; the Eighty-eighth in advance. The Guards, crossing the rear of the Second, took post on their left ; and the Fourth Division marching up, stood on either side of the Inkerman road.
Before seven o'clock, the redoubt had been taken and retaken three times. The contest here was of the same character throughout. By this time, "all our chiefs were assembled near the camps of the Second and Light Divisions. Lord Raglan was there looking unusually anxious, with Sir George Brown, Sir George Cathcart, the Duke of Cambridge, Sir De Lacy Evans, Major-General Strangwaya, Brigadier-Generals Bul- ler, Adams, Torrens, Goldie, Bentinck, Pennefather, and several other officers of high rank from the English and French armies. All this time, the Forty-first, Forty-seventh, Forty-ninth, Fifty-fifth, Twentieth, and Eighty-eighth Regiments, from the Second, Fourth, and Light Divisions, were ranged inside the wall on the old post-road, firing over it into the bodies of Russian infantry with the most terrible effect."
The batteries now came up to support the infantry, and soon enabled them to charge the Russians : and here the same movement was re- peated,----a vigorous British charge, followed by the flight of the foe ; who, reinforced, returned again and again to the front. Some illustra- tions of this are supplied by the correspondent of the Horning Herald. The Guards arrived in their place, and went to work at once. The three battalions only mustered 1200 men. " The number of the enemy in and around the battery was at least 6000 ; yet the Coldatreams charged and broke their way through all opposition, and got to the work. The instant they had done so, the enemy seemed to redouble their efforts to take and keep the place. Fresh regiments came up the hill, and threw themselves into the battery from all points; but the Coldstreams held their ground, fighting with perfect desperation. The bat- tery was now completely encircled in front, flank, and rear; and, as the Coldatreams say, every man in the place gave himself up for lost, and de- termined to sell his life dearly. Three times did the Russians throw them- selves upon the battery, and by the sheer weight of their masses surmount and cross the walls; yet each time they were driven back again. The malee was frightful. So close were the antagonists, that after once firing the musket there was no time to load ; the men then stood up and charged with the bayonet, or beat each other down with the butts of their muskets. Each time the Russians were repulsed they left heaps of dead behind, and it was over the corpses of their comrades that they advanced each time to a fresh attack.
"After the last repulse, the Russians for some time did not renew the contest. Observing that the height of the walls prevented our men from firing over, they collected in masses close under them, and began throwing the muskets and bayonets of their dead comrades spearwise into the battery, with huge stones. For this species of attack our men also were quite pre- pared, and in turn hurled out the rough fragments of rock upon their as- sailants. For nearly ten minutes this atone-throwing continued without in- termission on both sides. And every now and then the Russians made a desperate dash to enter by the embrasures ; but were bayoneted in the at- tempts, till the embrasures were choked up with corpses.
"All this time, the Coldstream Guards alone, almost unaided, and only 500 strong, had been keeping at bay nearly 7000 of the enemy's troops. But at last they were compelled to retire. The Russians came round in rear of the battery, and kept up from a distance a tremendous fire of musketry, while the fellows on the outside plied the stones thicker than ever. The Coldstreams did not abandon the place while the least hope remained of de- fending it successfully. They then charged out in a body on the enemy in their rear ; leaving eight officers and nearly 200 men killed and wounded in the battery behind them. All the wounded were instantly bayoneted by the Russians. Some of the officers' bodies were found with as many as twenty bayonet-wounds, and their skulls completely smashed with the butt- ends of muskets. Leaving the battery, the Coldstreams fought their way to where the Fusiliers and Grenadiers were coming up to their assistance. The three battalions which then did not muster 1000 men, tried to charge up to where the Russian artillery was firing ; but it was a useless attempt, as the enemy had then nearly 35,000 men upon our right flank. The handful of Guards drove three entire Russian regiments back at the point of the bayonet ; but, in the act of doing it, such masses of the enemy hung upon their flanks, that they were compelled to retire, and with difficulty could extricate them- selves."
The Guards rallied behind the wall. But the enemy now endeavoured to outflank that defence : at this stage of the battle there were 40,000 Russians on the hill, to 8000 British; and the Guards actually gave up the wall. Retiring slowly, disputing every inch of ground, it was in this movement that the Generals received their wounds; the Russian marks- men firing from the bush. The attacks on the left were so fierce that four guns fell into the enemy's hands ; but were recaptured by a charge of the Eighty-eighth and Seventy-seventh. As the enemy seemed about to make a final effort, the Zouaves and the Thirtieth French Regiment came up and assailed the Russian left.
"This occurred at about eleven o'clock ; and from that moment the Rus- sian chance was hopeless. Yet though under the French fire they were literally falling by battalions, they never showed the least signs of trepida- tion or disorder. On the contrary, they formed up in the most beautiful order, altered their front so as to meet the attack of the French, and ex- tending their line to the left, prepared to resume their attack upon the Eng- lish. At that time, however, our men were well prepared, and, without any order or arrangement, flung themselves headlong upon the enemy, charging with the bayonet. The Russians boldly charged with the bayonet also ; and for the space of five minutes the Thirtieth, Forty-first, Forty-ninth, Eighty- eighth, and six or seven Russian regiments were stabbing, beating, and firing at each other in the most fearful manner. At last the enemy gave way, and began retiring in good order across towards the Inkerman heights. Until I saw it, I never in my life could have believed that any troops in the world could have retired under such a murderous fire in such perfect order. The French and English, with a whole mass of artillery, followed close upon the retreating battalions, pouring in volley after volley of grape-shot, shell, and musketry : in fact it was a perfect carnage. Yet in spite of this, the enemy kept their order, retreating almost at slow time and every five or ten minutes halting and charging desperately up the 'hill at our men and the French. In these charges the Russians lost fearfully. We received them with vollies of musketry, and then dashed at them with the bayonet."
The battle lasted from dawn until late in the afternoon ; when the Russians, covering their retreat by a heavy fire, fell back, some to Sebas- topol, some across the Inkerman, leaving behind them one of the bloodiest fields ever beheld by a soldier.
The special correspondent of the Times supplies some personal and special information. "Sir George Cathcart, seeing his men disordered by the fire of a large column of Russian infantry which was outflanking them, while portions of the various regiments composing his division were maintaining an unequal struggle with an overwhelming force, rode down into the ravine in which they were engaged, to rally them. He perceived at the same time, that the Russians had actually gained possession of a portion of the hill in rear of one flank of his division : but still his stout heart never failed him for a moment. He rode at their head, encouraging them; and when a cry-arose that the ammunition was failing, he said coolly, Have you not got your bayonets ? ' As he led on his men it was observed that another body of men had gained the top of the hill behind them on the right ; but it was im- possible to tell whether they were friends or foes. A deadly volley was poured into our scattered regiments. Sir George cheered them, and led them back up the hill; but a flight of bullets passed where he rode, and he fell from his horse close to the-Russian. columns. The men had to fight their way through a host of enemies, and lost fearfully. They were surrounded and bayoneted on all sides, and won their desperate way up the hill with diminished ranks and the loss of near 500 men. Sir George Cathcart's body was afterwards recovered with a bullet-wound in the head and three bayonet- wounds in the body. In this struggle, where the Russians fought with the greatest ferocity, and bayoneted the wounded as they fell, Colonel Swyny, of the Sixty-third, a most gallant officer, Lieutenant Dowling, Twentieth, Major Wynne, Sixty:eighth, and other Officers whose names will be found in the Gazette, met their death ; and Brigadier Goldie (of the Fifty-seventh Regiment) received the wounds of which he has since died. The conflict on the right was equally uncertain and equally bloody. In the Light Divi- sion, the Eighty-eighth got so far into the front that they were surrounded and put into utter confusion; when four companies of the Seventy-seventh under Major Straton charged the Russians, broke them, and relieved their comrades. The fight had not long commenced ere it was evident that the Russians had received orders to fire at all mounted officers. Sir George Brown was struck by a shot which went through his arm and struck his side. I saw with regret his p.ale and sternly composed face, as his body was borne by me on a litter early in the day, his white hair flickering in the.breeze ; for I knew we had lost the services of a good soldier that day. Further to the right, a contest, the like of which, perhaps, never took place before, was going on lae- tween the Guards and dense columns of Russian infantry of five times their number. The Guards had charged them and.driven them back when they perceived that the Russians had outflanked them. They were out of ammu- nition too. They were uncertain whether there were friends or foes in the rear. They had no support, no reserve ; and they were fighting with the bayonet against an enemy who stoutly contested every inch of ground, when the corps of another Russian column appeared on their right far in their rear. Then a fearful mitraille was poured into them, and vollies of rifle and musketry. The Guards were broken ; they had lost twelve officers, who fell in the field; they had left one-half of their number on the ground ; and they retired along the lower road of the valley. They were soon reinforced, how- ever, and speedily avenged their loss." The actual loss of the enemy is diversely stated. Lord Raglan esti- mates it at 5000 dead, and 10,000 wounded or prisoners. General Can- robert's estimate is from 8000 to 10,000 killed, wounded, and prisoners. Prince Menschikoff's own statement is 42 officers, and 2969 rank and file killed, 206 officers and 5791 rank and file wounded,—equal to the es- timate of General Canrobert, though Mensohikoff takes no account of the prisoners.
The actual numbers of the enemy in the battle are stated with a similar diversity. Lord Raglan estimates them at 60,000; General Canrobert at 45,000; the Russian authorities do not state their numbers, but the troops mentioned would amount to 50,000. Early on the 5th, the Russians also attacked the French in their trenches. This is narrated by General Canrobert.
" About 5000 men made a vigorous sortie against our attacks to the left, favoured by a thick fog and by ravines which facilitated their approach. The troops on duty in the trench, under the orders of General de la Motterouge, marched upon the enemy, who had already invaded two of our batteries, and repulsed him, killing more than 200 men within the batteries. The General of Division Forey, commanding the siege-corps, by rapid and skilful ar- rangements arrived with the troops of the Fourth Division to support the guards of the trenches, and marched himself at the head of the Fifth Bat- talion of Foot Chasseura. The Russians, beaten down upon the whole of their line, were retreating precipitately upon the place with considerable losses, when General de Lourmel, seeing them fly before him, and urged by a chivalric courage, dashed in pursuit of them up to the walls of the place ; where he fell severely wounded. General Forey had much difficulty in with- drawing him from the advanced position to which his brigade bad been hur- ried by excess of bravery. The Aurelle brigade which had taken up an ex- cellent position to the left, protected this retreat; which was effected under the fire of the place with considerable loss. Colonel Niol, of the Twenty- sixth of the. Line, who lost his two chiefs of battalion, took the command of the brigade ; whose conduct was admirably energetic. The enemy in this sortie lost 1000 men in killed, wounded, or prisoners ; and he received a very
considerable moral and material check." + The French loss during the day is set down at 1726.
[FROM THE LONDON- GA2ETTE EXTRAORDINARY, NOV. 22.]
Lord Ballo: to the Duke of Newcastle.
Before Sebastopol, Nov. 8, 1854. My Lord Duke—I have the honour to report to your Grace, that the army under my command, powerfully aided by the corps of observation of the French army, under the command of that distinguished officer General Bosquet, effectually repulsed and defeated a most vigorous and determined attack of the enemy on our position overlooking the ruins of Inkerman, ,.on the morn- ing of the 5th instant. In my letter to your Grace of the 3d, I informed you that the enemy had considerably increased their force in the valley of the Tschernaya. The fol- lowing day this augmentation was still further apparent, and large masses of troops had evidently arrived from the Northward ; and on two several occa- sions persons of distinguished rank were observed to have joined the Russian cam
I tave subsequently learnt that the fourth corps d'armee' conveyed in car- riages of the country, and in the lightest possible order, had been brought from Moldavia, and were to be immediately followed by the third corps. It was, therefore, to be expected that an extensive movement would not be long deferred.
Accordingly, shortly before daylight on the 5th, strong columns of the enemy came upon the advanced pickets covering the right of the position. These pickets behaved with admirable gallantry, defending the ground foot by foot against the overwhelming numbers of the enemy, until the Second Division, under Major-General Perinefather, with its field-guns, which had immediately been got under arms, was placed in position.
The Light Division, under Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown, was also brought to the front without loss of time ; the First Brigade, under Major-General Codrington, occupying the long slopes to the left towards Sebastopol, and protecting our right battery, and guarding against attack on that side, and the Second Brigade, under Brigadier-General Buller, forming on the left of the Second Division, with the 88th Regiment, under Lieu- tenant-Colonel Jeffreys, thrown in advance.
The Brigade of Guards under his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and Major-General Bentinek, proceeded likewise to the front, and took up most important ground to the extreme right on the alignment of the Second Division, but separated from it by a deep and precipitous ravine, and posting its guns with those of the Second Division.
The Fourth Division, under Lieutenant-General Sir George Cathcart, having been brought from their encampment, advanced to the front and right of the attack ; the First Brigade, under Brigadier-General Goldie, proceeded to the left of the Inkerman road ; the Second Brigade, under Brigadier-General Torrens, to the right of it, and on the "ridge overhanging the valley of the Tsohernaya. The Third Division, under Lieutenant-General Sir Richard England, oc- cupied in part the ground vacated by the Fourth Division, and supported the Light Division by two regiments under Brigadier-General Sir John Campbell, while Brigadier-General Eyre held the command of the troops in the trenches.
The morning was extremely dark, with a drizzling rain, rendering it almost impossible to discover anything beyond the flash and smoke of artillery and heavy musketry fire. It, however, soon became evident that the enemy, under cover of a vast cloud of skirmishers, supported by dense columns of Infantry, had advanced numerous batteries of large calibre to the high ground to the left and front of the Second Division, while powerful columns of infantry attacked with great vigour the Brigade of Guards.
Additional batteries of heavy artillery were also placed by the enemy on the slopes to our left; the guns in the field amounting in the whole to ninety pieces, independently of the ship-guns and those in the works of Sebastopol.
Protected by a tremendous lire of shot, shell, and grape, the Russian columns advanced in great force, requiring every effort of gallantry on the part of our troops to resist them. At this time, two battalions of French infantry, which had on the first notice been sent by General Bosquet, joined our right, and very materially contributed to the successful resistance to the attack, cheering with our men, and charging the enemy down the bill with great loss.
About the same time, a determined assault was made on our extreme left ; and for a moment the enemy possessed themselves of four cf our guns ; three of which were retaken by the 88th, while the fourth was speedily recaptured by the 77th Regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Egerton.
In the opposite direction, the Brigade of Guards, under his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, was engaged in a severe conflict.
The enemy, under the cover of thick brushwood, advanced in two heavy bodies, and assaulted with great determination a small redoubt which had been con- structed for two guns, but was not armed. The combat was most arduous; and the brigade, after displaying thentraost steadiness and gallantry, was obliged to retire before very superior numbers, unti supported by a wing of the 20th Regiment of the Fourth Division; when they again advanced and retook the redoubt.
This ground was afterwards occupied in gallant style by French troops; and the Guards speedily reformed.in rear of the right flank of the Second Division.
In the meanwhile, Lieutenant-General, the Honourable Sir George Cath- cart, with a few companies of the 68th Regiment, considering that he might make a strong impression by descending into the valley and taking the 'enemy in flank, moved rapidly forward; but finding the heights above him in full occupation of the Russians,' he suddenly discovered that he was en- tangled with a superior force; and while attempting to withdraw his men, he received a mortal wound, shortly previously to which Brigadier-General Torrens, When leading thei68th, was likewise severely wounded. subsequently to this, the battle continued with unabated vigour, and with no positive result, theenemy bringing upon our line not only the fire of all their field-batteries' but those in front of the 'works of the place and the ship- guns, till the afternoon, when the symptoms of giving way drat became ap- parent; and shortly after, although the fire did not cease, the retreat became general, and heavy masses were observed retiring over the bridge of the Inkerman, and ascending the opposite- heights, abandoning on the field of battle.five or six thousand dead and wounded, multitudes of the latter having already' been carried off by them. I never before witnessed such a specta- cle as the field presented : but upon this I will not dwell. Having submitted to your Grace this imperfect description of this most severe battle, I have still two duties to discharge—the one most gratifying, the last most painful to my feelings. have the greatest satisfaction in drawing your Grace's attention to the brilliant conduct of the Allied troops. French and English vied with each other in displaying their gallantry, and Manifesting their zealous devotion to duty, notwithstanding that they had to contend against an infinitely su- perior force, and were exposed for many hours to a moat galling fire.
It should be borne in mind, that they have daily for several weeks under-
gone the most constant labour, and that many of them passed the previous night in the trenches.
I will not attempt to enter into the detail of the movements of the French troops, lest I should not state them correctly ; but I am proud of the oppor- tunity of beating testimony to their valour and energetic services, and of paying a tribute of admiration to the distinguished conduct of their imme- diate commander, General Bosouet, while it is in the highest degree pleasing to me to plane upon record my deep sense of the valuable assistance I received from the Commander-in-chief, General Canrobert, who was himself on the ground and in constant communication with me, and whose cordial co- operation on all occasions I cannot too highly extol. Your Grace will re- collect that be was wounded at the Alma. He was again wounded on the 5th; but I should hope that he will not long feel the effects of it. I will in a subsequent despatch lay before your Grace the names of the officers whose services have been brought to my notice. I will not detain the mail for that purpose now : but I cannot delay to report the admirable behaviour of Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown, who was unfortunately shot through the arm, but is doing well ; of Lieutenant-General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who particularly distinguished himself ; and of Major-General Pennefather, in command of the Second Division, which received the first attack, and gallantly maintained itself under the greatest difficulties throughout this protracted conflict ; of Major-General Bentinck, who is severely wounded ; Major-General Codrington, Brigadier- General Adams, and Brigadier-General Torrens, who are severely wounded ; and Brigadier-General Buller, who is also wounded, but not so seriously.
I must likewise express my obligations to Lieutenant-General Sir Richard, England for the excellent disposition he made of his division, and the as- sistance ho' rendered to the left of the Light Division, where Brigadier- General Sir John Campbell was judiciously placed, and effectively supported Major-General Codrington ; and I have great pleasure in stating that Briga- dier-General Eyre was employed in the important duty of guarding the trenches from any assault from the town.
Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy Evans, who had been obliged by severe indisposition to go on board ship a few days previously, left his bed as soon as he received intelligence of the attack, and was promptly at his post ; and though he did not feel well enough to take the command of the division out of the hands of Major-General Pennefather, he did not fail to give him his best advice and assistance.
It is deeply distressing to me to have to submit to your Grace the list of the killed, wounded, and missing, on this memorable occasion. It is indeed heavy, and very many valuable officers and men have been lost to her Ma- jesty's service.
Among the killed, your Grace will find the names of Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir G. Cathcart, Brigadier-General Strangways, and Briga- dier-General Goldie.
Of the services of the first it is almost unnecessary to speak. They are known throughout the British empire, and have within a short space of time been brought conspicuously before the country by his achievements at the Cape of Good Hope, whence he had only just returned when he was ordered to this army. By his death her Majesty has been deprived of a most de- voted servant, an officer of the highest merit ; while I personally have to deplore the loss of an attached and faithful friend.
Brigadier-General Strangways was known to have distinguished himself in early life, and in mature age throughout a long service he maintained the same character. The mode in which be had conducted the command of the Artillery, since it was placed in his hands by the departure through illness of Major-General Cater, is entitled to my entire approbation, and was equally agreeable to those who were confided to his care. Brigadier-General Goldie was an officer of considerable promise, and gave great satisfaction to all under whom he has served.
It is difficult to arrive at any positive conclusion as to the actual numbers brought into the field by the enemy. The configuration of the ground did not admit of any great development of their force, the attack consisting of a system of repeated assaults in heavy masses of columns; but, judging from the numbers that were seen in the plains after they had withdrawn in re- treat, I am led to suppose that they could not have been less than sixty thou- sand men. Their loss was excessive, and it is calculated that they left on the field near five thousand dead, and that their casualties amount in the whole, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, to not less than fifteen thousand. Your Grace will be surprised to learn that the number of British troops actually engaged little exceeded eight thousand men ; whilst those of Gene- ral Bosquet's division only amounted to six thousand, the remaining avail- able French troops on the spot having been kept in reserve.
I ought to mention, that while the enemy was attacking our right, they assailed the left of the French trenches, and actually got into two of their batteries : but they were quickly driven out in the most gallant manner, with considerable loss, and hotly pursued to the very walls of Sebastopol.
I have, &c. RAGLAN. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c. &c. &c.
Casualties on the 5th, November.
Staff-5 officers killed; 12 officers wounded. 4th Light Dragoons-2 rank and file wounded. 11th Hussars-1 rank and file wounded. 17th Lancers —1 officer killed ; rank and file wounded. Artillery-2 officers, 3 sergeants, 10 rank and file, killed; 4 officers, 5 sergeants. 71 rank and file, wounded. 9d Battalion Grenadier Guards- 3 officers, 3 sergeants, 1 drummer, 27 rank and file, killed; 6 officers, 6 sergeants, 1 drummer, 144 rank and file, wounded ; 30 rank and file missing. 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards-8 officers, 3 sergeants, 9 rank and tile, killed ; 5 officers, 6 ser- geants, 110 rank and file, wounded ; 53 rank and file missing. 1st Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards-1 officer, 2 sergeants, 21 rank and file, killed; 8 officers, 8 ser- geants, 2 drummers, 109 rank and file, wounded ; 16 rank and file missing. 1st Regiment of Foot-1 rank and file killed. 7th Regiment-5 rank and file killed ;
5 officers, 2 sergeants, 1 drummer, 46 rank and file, wounded ; 8 rank and file missing. 19th Regiment-1 officer, 1 rank and file, killed ; 3 rent and file wounded. 20th Regiment-1 officer, 2 sergeants, 10 rank and file, killed; 8 officers, 17 ser- geants, 1 drummer, 104 rank and file, wounded ; 28 rank and file missing. -21st Re- giment-1 officer, 13 rank and file, killed ; 6 officers, 11 sergeants, 79 rank and file, wounded; 11 rank and file missing. 23d Regiment-7 rank and file killed ; 1 officer, 2 sergeants, 18 rank and file, wounded; 1 officer, 1 sergeant, 11 rank and file, missing. 30th Regiment-2 officers, 27 rank and file, killed ; 5 officers, 4 sergeants, 97 rank and file, wounded. 33d Regiment-1 officer, 6 rank and file, killed ; 2 offi- cers, 3 sergeants, 52 rank and file, wounded. 41st Regiment-5 officers, 2 sergeants, 53 rank and file, killed ; G officers, 4 sergeants, 2 drummers, 95 rank and file, wounded. 46th Regiment-2 officers, 2 sergeants, 24 rank and file, wounded; 12 rank and file missing. 47th Regiment—I9 rank and file killed ; 2 officers, 2 ser- geants, 43 rank and file, wounded. 49th Regiment-2 officers, 1 sergeant, 1 drum- mer 37 rank and file, killed ; 11 sergeants, 1 drummer, 107 rank and file, wounded. 50th i Regiment-1 officer, 8 rank and file, killed ; 1 officer, 1 drummer, 20 rank and file, wounded, 55th Regiment - 18 rank and file killed; 5 officers, 4 sergeants, 54 rank and file, wounded. 57th Regiment-1 officer, 3 sergeants, 1 drummer, 9 rank and file, killed ; 3 officers, 5 sergeants, 1 drummer, E9 rank and file, wounded. 634 Regiment-3 officers, 12 rank and file, killed ; 7 officers, 7 sergeants, 2 drummers, 82 rank and file, wounded. 68th Regiment-2 officers, 4 rank and file, killed ; 2 officers, 2 sergeants, 2 drummers, 29 rank and file, wounded ; 2 sergeants, 12 rank and file, missing. 77th Regiment-1 officer, 2 sergeants, 17 rank and file, killed ; 2 sergeants, 1 drummer, 34 rankand file, wounded ; 1 rank and file missing. 88th Regiment-4 serovants, 18 rank and file, killed; 2 officers, 9 sergeants, 71 rank and file, wounded. ath Regiment-2 sergeants, 25 rank and file, killed; 4 officers, 3 sergeants, 101. rank and file, wounded. 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade-1 officer, 4 sergeants, 11 rank and file, killed ; 3 officers, 5 sergeants, 1 drummer, 77 rank and file, wounded ; S sergeants, 9 rank and file, missing. 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade-1 officer, 8 rank and file, killed ; 1 officer, 1 drummer, 2,5 rank and file, wounded.
FIRST DIVISION.
Staff-Major-General H. J. W. Bentinck, slightly; Captain T. H. Clifton, A.D.C:, slightly. 3d Battalion Grenadier Guards-Colonel F. W. Hamilton, slightly; Lieu- tenant-Colonel It. Bradford, slightly; Lieutenant-Colonel Honourable H. Percy, slightly; Captain A. Tipping, severely ; Lieutenant Sir, J. Ferguson, Bart., slightly; Lieutenant C. N. Stunt, severely. 1st Battalion ColdstteamGuards-Lieutenant- Colonel J. Halkett, severely; Lieutenant-Colonel Lord A. C. L. Fitzroy, severe- ly; Colonel Honourable G. Upton, slightly; Captain Honourable P. Fielding severely; Lieutenant Honourable W. A. Amherst, severely. 3d Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards-Colonel E. W. F. Walker, severely ; Lieutenant-Colonel. Francis Seymour, slightly; Captain G. T. F. Schuckburgh, severely; Captain It. Gipps, severe- ly; Captain F. Baring, slightly; Lieutenant S. J. Blaine, slightly; Captain and Adjutant 11. Drummond, severely; Assistant-Surgeon A. G. Elkuigton,
Swann DIVISION.
Staff-Brigadier-General H. W. Adams, severely; Captain J. Gubbius, A.D.C., severely ; Captain C. Adams, A.D.C. slightly ; Captain A. M`Donald, A.D.C.,
slightly; Captain F. P. Harding, severely. 30th Regiment-Major J. T. Mauleverer, severely ; Captain J. Rose, severely ; Captain G. Dickson, slightly ; Captain P. Bayley, severely ; Lieutenant J. D. Ross Lewin, dangerously. 41st Re- giment-Captain H. W. Meredith, slightly; Captain Hugh Rowlands, slightly ; Captain F. C. Bligh, slightly; Lieutenant IL S. Bush, severely; Lieutenant. G. B. Fitzroy, severely ; Lieutenant and Adjutant W. Johnson, slightly. 47th Regiment- Lieutenant-Colonel W. O'G. Hely, severely; Ensign G. Waddilove, slightly. 55th Regiment-Lieutenant-Colonel C. Warren, C.B., severely; Brevet Colonel H. C. B. Daubeney, slightly; Lieutenant J. R. Hume, severely; lieutenant W. Barnaton, severely ; Lieutenant G. A. Morgan, slightly. 95th Regiment-Major J. G. Cham- pion, dangerously ; Major H. Hume, slightly; Captain G. C.. Vialls, slightly; Lieutenant A. J. J. 
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