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 THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA. 87 had enabled him to detect their unstable con- CHAP. dition; and he had, therefore, sent an order direct- ' tog that eight squadrons of Heavy Dragoons g^jett-s should be moved down to support them. Lord dra g° on8 Lucan had entrusted the task to Brigadier- General Scarlett, the officer who commanded our Heavy Brigade ; and Scarlett was in the act of executing Lord Baglan's order, when the Kussian cavalry, as we have just been seeing, turned away from the valley and moved up over the summit of the Causeway ridge. Having with him the 5th Dra- goon Guards, the Scots Greys, and the Inniskilling Dragoons — regiments numbering altogether six squadrons — and having, besides, provided that to make up the ' eight/ his 4th Dragoon Guards with both its two squadrons should follow him, Scarlett was marching along the South Valley, and making his way towards the east, with the Causeway Heights on his left. For the purpose of seeing how these troops were brought into action, the order of march should be known. The movement being regarded as a move- ment within our own lines, and one therefore proceeding through ground in the unchallenged dominion of the English, was not conducted with the military precautions which would have been otherwise judged necessary, and no horsemen covered the march by moving along the top of the Causeway ridge. Scarlett did not apparently en- tertain an idea that Eussian cavalry could come so high up the North Valley as the 'Number ' Five' Redoubt, and manoeuvre on the ground