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 350 THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA. CHAP. I. The casualties resulting from the battle. Trophies taken by the Russians. Treatment of the prisoners taken by the enemy In submitting to be thus extruded from the Causeway Heights, the Allies gave up the con- trol of the .Woronzoff road, and the time was at hand when this loss would become a cause of cruel sufferings to the English army. The Allies lost in killed and wounded about 600 officers and men, besides some fifteen un- wounded English and a small number of Turks who were taken prisoners.* The Russians, it seems, lost in men killed and wounded about 627.f The Russians took out of the redoubts captured from the Turks seven cast-iron English guns. Also, Liprandi was enabled to send to his chief the welcome trophy of a Turkish standard. It may here be recorded, and recorded with gratitude, that the English prisoners, upon the whole, were treated with great kindness; and I will mention a touching example of good feeling displayed by the poor Muscovite soldiers. Simple, untutored men, they yet had heard so much of the ways of other nations as to be aware that the Englishmen did not live on that strange waxy substance which goes by the name of ' black bread ; ' and their kindly natures were so moved by the ing under him an unwounded horse was taken prisoner. + This includes some who were only ' coutusionnOs,' and also fifteen missing. I include those last because I believe that all who were 'missing' had been either killed or wounded. The bs of the statement as to the Russian losses is the official return, to which (by adopting it) General de Todlehen gives th« nreigbl of his anthoril
 * I am not aware that any one unwounded Englishman h i ■