ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF BALACLAVA.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 119, 20 March 1895, Page 2

ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF BALACLAVA.

What tbo exact circumstances were which It- tight aboi.t the famous chatgeof the Light Brigade at Balaclava can never be krowu, because the officer who delivered the misinterpreted order was shot immediately aftnvards. The conjectuial writing on the question is endless. la a volume published by Messrs Bentley. Lie u'.ei ant-Colonel Colin .Frederick C»ni[>btll gives his views: "I have ci quired a good deal about the mistake of our I ght cavalry on that day, mid have C' uie to the conclusion that Ci'jjtain I«OiMi r<ally was to blame t". r i») which at first I had great t|. übl£ if. There is a good deal of t uth in what the Times says about the cavalry had been very baikward during the campaign. Lord 1 ucan uhk called I.ord L'x k-ori, and many • tlu r j< kes of the same kind were flying about ci-nceining them, but it it- n> hM-me to pay that this was the cause* of tie fatal charge. There is no dcubt that Nolan hated Lord Lucan, and that after he had delive'ed a wrong order, w hen questioned about it, uc raid in a rr.ctt tsiintmg meaner, is befi re you, my lord, and yi'U are ordered to advance, that's alland then p'aced himself alongside the lead'ng squadron-" According to Sir Evelyn Wood's account in die Fortnight Review, what Nolan said *as, '"There, my Itrd, is the enemy, and there are your guns meaning, n< t the Russian batteries, •>ut the guns which the Lussisms had ca(tund) and which Lord Rng'an wanted to prevent the Russians irom earning «ff. Cumpbell m.-.kes no alliiNu n to iheeireumstar.ee mentioned in Bir Evelyn Wood's account, that Capta : n Nolan, when he saw the Light Brigade starting on its awful chaige, ga lored across its front and poi with his sword in the other direction.