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 THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA. 285 infantry and artillery involved in the overthrow chap. which was sweeping his cavalry out of the field. ' On the Fedioukine Hills, the head of Jahrokritsky's column was rolling up under D'Allonville's bril- liant attack. In the low ground between the Causeway Heights and the Fedioukine Hills, the condition of things was this : Having intruded itself, as we know, a mile deep into a narrow valley, hemmed in on three sides by Eussian forces of all arms, our Light Cavalry Brigade had overthrown all the forces which before confronted it, and was disposed for the moment as follows : The still combating remains of the first line were broken into groups and small knots, numbering perhaps, altogether, after the separation of the men acting under O'Hara, as many as thirty. Of these, some were combating in a desultory way, with little other purpose than that of defending themselves, and endeavouring to make out what best they could do in the confusion ; but others, as we saw, were hanging upon the skirts of the Eussian squadrons, and, in effect, pressing on the retreat by assailing the people who lagged. The group of some fifteen men under Mayow had coherence enough, as we saw, to be able to put to flight the body of horse which encountered them. On our extreme left, Colonel Douglas, with his 11th Hussars, now counting a little more than 50 sabres, was pursuing the retreat of the Russian Lancers which had given way under his charge ; and on his right rear, Lord George Paget (having quelled the attempts of the Russians to