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 254 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP, uess was besides so provokingly sleek, that Henry Z^' Percy — inflamed with the fight, bruised, wounded, id Period, begrimed with wet earth, and reeking with sweat aud blood — grew as savage as his ancestor did under like conditions with the knight 'trimly ' dressed,' wlio drawled out his dislike to salt- petre ; and it seems he indulged his temper. But if a Hotspur, after five centuries, was ' pes- ' tered' again 'by a popinjay,' he soon drew the Supplies of solace he needed from a tumbril of fresh ammu- nition.* In this one respect, it proved easy to restore the personal efficiency of the soldiery as they came in from the brushwood below ; but to reorganise them was of course a hard task, its difficulty being greatly aggravated by the losses Heorgaiiisa- the rcgimeuts had sustained in officers. At one dupe°rse.r spot, whcrc no officer of the Guards was present, Boid.ery. ^^ ^iigon of the 7tb Hussars did excellent ser- vice by rallying some of their soldiery.-f* At another. Sir Charles Kussell of the Grenadiers, with the aid of Captain Greville Finch of the 68th, devoted himself to the task, and was able at last to form a little battalion composed of men from different regiments. Soon, a number of the knew who the staff oflficer was. + So .stated (with a grateful acknowledgment of the service) by H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge in his private despatch to Headquarters, 6th Nov. 1854. H.R.H. there says that Dr AVilson for some time opposed these men of the Guards to a body of the Kussians which sought to get through, but I do not know enough of the service thus reported by H.R.H. to be in a condition lor narrating it. Dr Wilson was attached to the 1st Division.
 * Colonel, now Lieutenant-General, Lord Henry Percy never