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 238 THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA. chap. Alexander Dunn, Lieutenant Roger Palmer, and L George Powell Haughton. With the 4th Light ^, u £. th ,f + Dragoons, besides Lord George Paget who com- 4 th Light o ' o o Dragoons, nianded the regiment, there were present Major Halkett, Captain Alexander Low, Captain George John Brown, Captain Portal, Captain Hutton, Lieutenant Sparke, Lieutenant Hedworth Jolliffe, Cornet Wykeham Martin,* Cornet William Affleck King, and Cornet Edward Warwick Hunt. With with the 8th the 8th Hussars (which had only three of its troops present), there rode, besides Colonel She well who commanded the regiment, Major de Salis, Captain Tomkinson, Lieutenant Seager (the Adjutant), Lieutenant Clutterbuck, Lieu- tenant Lord Viscount Fitzgibbon, Lieutenant Phillips, Cornet Heneage, Cornet Clowes, and Cornet William Mussenden. Of the regiments thus acting in support the The order in foremost was the 11th Hussars. In obedience to 'supports the order personally delivered to Colonel Douglas by Lord Lucan, the regiment had altered its relative position; and, instead of forming the left of the first line, it now advanced in support of the 17th Lancers. Next came Lord George Paget's regiment, the 4th Light Dragoons. Whilst entrusting to Lord George Paget the charge of society, spoke of him as coming up to the very idea which he (Thackeray) had formed of a 'brave, modest soldier.' Cornet Wykdiam Martin survived the Crimean War, hut died young, and deeply loved. He was the son of the member for Newport, and the brother of the member for Rochester.— Note to Second Edition.
 * Thackeray, who once chanced to meet this young officer in