342 CRIMEAN SERVICES OF “l ” TROOP, NOW “ €>” BATTERY, R.H.A. 
order of march. The French, about 25,000 men, on our right, with 
their right resting on the shore. The Turks in rear, about 10,000 
strong, and the British on the left, our right resting on the French and 
on the left to the open country. Oar strength being about 26,000 men. 
The British were formed in two columns, thus :— 
Cavalry. 
“ I ” Troop, Koyal Horse Artillery, 
with some riflemen. 
Light Division . Artillery Second Division . Artillery 
Guards and Highlanders do. Third do. . do. 
Baggage. 
Commissariat. 
Fourth Division. 
Cavalry. 
In front and on our left skirmishers of cavalry and infantry were 
thrown out. We thus advanced across an extensive undulating plain, 
covered with a short parched and coarse grass, not a tree or shrub to 
be seen anywhere, having marched with occasional halts for about 
10 miles, at 2.30 pan. we reached the small stream of the Bulganac, 
where both men and horses enjoyed the water, being the first we had 
seen, for the day was both hot and bright.. The cavalry having crossed 
the stream, we followed, but were ordered back, as it was the inten¬ 
tion to halt on that side for the night. Up to this period, with the 
exception of a few Cossacks, nothing had been seen of the enemy, who 
set fire to the farms and villages as we advanced. 
Immediately after re-crossing the bridge we were ordered to the 
front, as our cavalry vedettes and the Cossacks were firing at each 
other,, Having crossed a low ridge, we saw on the opposite side of the 
valley, about a mile from us, a large body of about 5000 Kussian 
cavalry, our skirmishers and cavalry retired very steadily, when the 
Russians brought down ten guns and opened fire, the two Troops, 
“ C” and “ I” Royal Horse Artillery, immediately came into action 
and, having disabled two of the enemy’s guns, quickly silenced them. 
(The first shot was from “I” Troop, and disabled one of the guns, and 
“C” Troop disabled the other. Lord Raglan immediately sent a 
message—“ Well done Captain Maude A) The affair did not continue 
more than half-an-hour, when the Russians retreated off the field. 1 
Our loss on the occasion was five men wounded and five horses killed 
of the cavalry, the artillery were not injured. The Russian loss was 
18 men killed, 35 wounded, and 32 horses killed. We halted on the 
ground that night. 
20th September, 1854.—The Troop fell in at 7 a.m., the men having 
first had their breakfasts, but did not move till 10 a.m., when the 
1 Captain Willett of the 17th Lancers, writing to his brother on the 19th of September, 1864, 
thus speaks of this affair. “ They (the Russians) then brought up their artillery. We brought up 
Maude’s Troop, and your old Troop,* now commanded by John Brandling, Strange assisting him. 
Our practice was beautiful, the first shot from your old Troop went right into a gun, and the second 
into a regiment of cavalry in close column : the thing did not last half-an-hour.” 
*“C” Troop, R.H.A. 
