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They fought in the batteries, armed with some of their own heavy ship's guns dragged up by themselves from the shore, carried the scaling-ladders in many an assault, assisted to land the stores, and were for some time the principal labourers in forming a road between Balaclava and Sebastopol.
The interview was almost closed, when a voice was heard from the back of the room, a very eager voice, and charged with the import of its message: "It's mebbe no' worth mentionin'," said Archie Blackwood, a fiery Scot whose father had fought at Balaclava, "but it's gey important for a' that.
For myself, I would sooner join in a second Balaclava gallop than encounter it. At ten minutes before four these two heroes might be seen walking up Pall Mall, towards the Club. Young Baker walked with an eager disengaged air. Mr Moffat did not know his appearance; he had, therefore, no anxiety to pass along unnoticed.
For study of character, wide charity of outlook, brilliant descriptive writing as, for instance, in the charge at Balaclava, and real, not mawkish, pathos as in the hopeless misery of Charles, invalided, with only eighteen shillings, out of the army "Ravenshoe" will always deserve to be read. It is the work of a writer who was not ashamed to avow himself an "optimist."
McKay was directed to take a small party with him to land the much-needed baggage and have it conveyed by hook or crook to the front. He left the camp late in the afternoon, and, striking the great Woronzoff Road just where it pierced the Fediukine Heights, descended it until he reached the Balaclava plain.
In France he receives two gas helmets, a sheep-skin coat, rubber mackintosh, steel helmet, two blankets, tear-shell goggles, a balaclava helmet, gloves, and a tin of anti-frostbite grease which is excellent for greasing the boots. Add to this the weight of his rations, and can you blame Tommy for growling at a twenty kilo route march?
See, on this one is 'Alma, 'Balaclava, and 'Sebastopol. He was quite a veteran, was he not? Well, he sold this to a dealer on Wardour Street, London, for five and six. You can get any number of them on the Bowery for their weight in silver. I tried very hard to get a Victoria Cross when I was in England, and I only succeeded in getting this one after a great deal of trouble.
I have got a horse and gig, and Drew and myself drive all about the country. hope my dear father and mother think of eternal things... Dearest Augusta, pray for me, I beg of you. He was twenty-one; the Crimean War broke out; and before the year was over, he had managed to get himself transferred to Balaclava. During the siege of Sebastopol he behaved with conspicuous gallantry.
Many suspected that the French Emperor used England as his catspaw, and saw that the English troops bore the brunt of all the terrible disasters which befell the invaders of the south of Russia. Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman were victories ever memorable, because the heroes of those battles had to fight against more sinister foes than the Russian troops they defeated in the field.
All the way from Balaclava his horse struggled knee-deep in mud: a very quagmire of black, sticky slush. Yet this was the great highway the only road between the base of supply and an army engaged eight miles distant in an arduous siege.
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