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under the command of Major-Goncrul Count Nerodc 

 II., and (/olonel Kookolevsky, attacked a Turkish batter^ 

 with great steadiness, under the heaviest fire in front 

 and flank. Having overtlirown the enemy's horsemen, 

 they captured the guns and carried off four of them. 

 Immediately after this another charge was made by the 

 Nijagorodskoy dragoons under Prince Chavchavadzy, in 

 which several Turkish squares were brok(;n and one 

 battalion cut to pieces, the dragoons s^'iffering heavily ; 

 out of thirty-three officers there were killed and wounded 

 twenty-three, half the soldiers being also placed hora de 

 combat. 



The Nijagorodskoy di'agoons, in a subsequent charge, 

 recaptured two guns that had been lost, and took four 

 from the Turks.* 



Shortly after the Crimean War, in the war between 

 Great Britain and Persia, in t857, a splendid cavalry 

 charge was made by the 3rd Bombay light cavalry, upon 

 a Persian square containing 500 men, well formed, and 

 ready to receive the attack. Adjutant Moore, of the 

 3rd light cavalry, was the first into the square. He 

 let his sword hang by the sword-knot, and taking a rein 

 in each hand, jumped his horse on to the bayonets. The 

 horse was killed, but the square was broken and anni- 

 hilated, while Moore was not even wounded. 



In the Italian campaign of 1859, the cavalry did not 

 play any important part, chiefly, it is said, on account 

 of the difficult nature of the ground, it being cut up 

 with vineyards, trees, and ditches. At Magenta some 

 charges of cavalry were made, in small numbers, on both 

 sides, in which the French claim successes. At Solferino 

 several cavalry charges were made, on a larger scale, by 

 both the Austrians and the French, on the plains around 

 Medole. The fighting was almost altogether between 

 the rival forces of horse, and swayed alternately in 

 favour of either side, as fresh reserves were poured in ; 

 the general result being in favour of the French. General 

 Desvaux captured 600 Austrian infantry in one of his 

 charges, while the Chasseurs d'Afrique are said to have 



» Bogdanovitch, vol. ii. 188, 189, 190. 



