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horses ! But even this feat was eclipsed by a later 

 performance of his at Inkerman. The Turkish division 

 to which he was at the moment attached was not 

 engaged, but that mattered little to Leveson. He 

 promptly gave the "bono Johnnies" the slip and 

 attached himself to the 63rd Regiment (now the Man- 

 chesters), and with them he had his fill of fighting. His 

 horse was shot under him, he was severely wounded 

 by a fragment of shell on the hip ; but despite these 

 mishaps he performed prodigies of valour. 



" An old friend of mine," he writes, " Lieut-Col. 

 Swyny, of the 63rd Regiment, was killed at my side. I 

 was one of the first up, and I retook a French brass gun 

 and two carriages for ammunition which the Russians 

 had taken from the French. ... I had the pleasure of 

 settling a few of their officers, for after my horse was 

 struck I took a sergeant's rifle and went with the 

 skirmishers of the 3Oth. We were following the Russians, 

 who were in full retreat, when I noticed their officers 

 turning round and trying to make their men stand. 

 Finding this was the case, I kept my rifle for them only, 

 and cut two of them over, as well as a bugler who was 

 trying to sound a call. I took his bugle, and will send it 

 to my uncle as a trophy if I get a chance. This was the 

 only way I could find out the officers, who dress like 

 the men." 



With the exception of the exploits of Colonel Peard, 

 " Garibaldi's Englishman," with his double-barrelled rifle 

 against the Austrians in the war of 1859, I don't think 

 I have ever read of anything quite so cold-blooded as 

 this potting of Russian officers by " the Old Shekarry." 



