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 BATTLb: OF TIIH ALMA. 279 advanced accordingly; but the officers in com- chap. niand of the French battery declined to move ^' forward. It was at this time that Walsham was Their lossea killed. He was the last officer who fell that day. Besides Walsham, our artillery corps lost two officers killed — namely, Dew and Cockrell; and of the rank and file, nine were killed, and twenty (besides one sergeant) were wounded. XXXV. Lord Eaglan now descended from the knoll Lord Ragian whither Fortune, in her wild and puissant gov- causeway T ernance of human events, had happily chosen to lead him. Bending his steps towards the ground just won by the Duke of Cambridge's Division, he rode across the main Causeway. At that very time, as I make it, there was riding towards Lord Eaglan, and riding, too, along the same road, though at a distance of some few hundred yards, a man, confounded and troubled, who had helped to bring great avoc on his country.* Clearly wanting in manv, nay, perhaps, in Pnuce „, ... T-i"^ 1 Meiitsclii- most, ot the qualities which make an able com- kofrou ground not mander, Prince Mentschikoff was still a brave farotr: schikoff tells us what was the state of the battle at the time when the meeting took place : and it seems to me that that stage was the very one that the battle had reached when Lord Kaglau crossed the great road. If so, it follows of course that the two facts occurred simnltaneously.
 * The General who describes his interview with Prince Ment-