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BALAKLAVA. 
CS RE GONE eS HO Ne 
In a lecture on the Co-operation of Horse Artillery and Cavalry, 
delivered at the Royal Artillery Institution on the 7th of March and 
appearing in the April number of the “ Proceedings,” an account— 
open in several respects to considerable criticism—is given of the 
doings of “C” Troop at the hattle of Balaklava. Of “I” Troop, 
commanded by Captain Maude, the only troop which was seriously 
engaged or took any important part in the action, not one single 
syllable is said. Apparently, the lecturer seems to have overlooked the 
fact that, beyond “C” Troop, there was any Horse Artillery in the 
field. 
It is with the object of rescuing from oblivion the deeds of a most 
gallant troop that this recollection of the 25th October, 1854, is here 
given. 
SIL! MRO (ivory  1D)) 
The sky, and the rocky summits of the hills which encircle on all 
sides the plain of Balaklava were beginning to redden with the first 
faint glimmer of day ; the hillsides, and the whole plain at their feet, 
lay wrapped in a dense autumn mist; it was half-past six o’clock. 
For an hour past the Cavalry Division had been on parade, as usual, 
in front of its camp near the village of Kadikoi and was impatiently 
awaiting the order to return to its lines and to breakfast, when the 
sound of guns amongst the hills around Kamara startled it from its 
apathy and aroused speculation as to whether there was to be a 
repetition of the exciting skirmish which had taken place a few days 
previously. But the increasing fire, and its development in other 
directions, the rapid circling to either hand of the vedettes posted 
along the crest of the Causeway Heights, with the occasional passage 
along it of horsemen at a gallop betokened that there was something 
more than usual astir in the morning air. And soon, spurring out of 
the darkness, came an aide-de-camp with orders for the Division to 
mount and advance. ‘Threading its way through a vineyard which at 
first impeded its progress and accompanied by the Heavy Brigade “I” 
Troop pressed forward towards a point a little to the right of where 
No. 8 Redoubt crowned the Causeway, and breasting the slope at 
a gallop suddenly emerged into the clear daylight and sprang swiftly 
into action. But the level rays of the rising sun, now well above 
the horizon, smiting directly in the faces of the detachments dis- 
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