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of thenineteenth was fought in thmiddle Wars/hich TbeCrimean intreslfrom inc.easing is a conflict*hich hasbeengaining century none of *hich areof panicular *argamen. ft hada variety olcauses, amongst us. It alsohadthreemajor except to th historians interst skirmishes, of a great city,smaller sieges andthe storming battles, thathehadbrought fromSeba5topol. In fact all ofwhich all withthe39,000 troops participaling andsome colourful uniforlns, nations several lookingfor a nev he did nor think thal he hadto: the cliffsat the river nouth andihe go to makeintersting scenarios for wargamers weretoo sleep for infantryand heights fromthe sealo lhe Causeway only onebattalionof the Minsk major battles and guns,he decided, andhe deployed willgive detaih of thethree This series of articles regiment onhisextreme left. give will,lhope, hints onwargamingthem. furtherup'river,but the Therewremoreinfanrryon the plateau Hill with its two aroundKourganie main force was concentra&d in theGreal andtheLelser Redoubts. although Tlesewere called hadnot, were casualtieseven tho ghlhere began badly, there Theday walls high and no were earthworks with around four feet fact thy only ofwar,however, They were notthecasuallis anyaction. asyet,been guns (32pdr and however: 12heavy Theydid mntab artillery wersome 300 of them: ditch. ol diseases andthere theywerethevictims pices in the in the Great Redoubt and nine field 24pdr howilzers) the hadbivouacked on theplainabove who,fte night before, troops guns faced the British and 36 the FrenchLesser. In all86 forduty ordead noiveitherunfit valley oftheriver Alma and$howere was righl, whilst 3,400 strong, ontheextreme Menschikov\ cavalry, the hill facing the his infantry were deployed around two thirds of French in BulSaria in thesummeranongthe Thedhease hadstruck lrench or lorlilication fron the two redoubts no other British. Apart Turkish annies asthey theBrilish, French and and hadsince followed hadbeenconstructed. Bay, 35miles fron Sebaslopol. thCrinea atCalamila invaded in commander, andMarshal St.Amaud, lnrd Raglan. theBrilish ashor andto rounduP It had takenfive dayslo get lhe armies plan met late on the evening offte lgth to charge offte French, had without ! European localtransport to nove on, decades sufficient position. ontheRussian the theirassault British army\ efficiency since laken their toll of the conflict had bybotharmies, whilst TheFrench hadfavoured apincermovement Napoleonicwa$. preferred Russian cavalry, wilh a wary ye on the masses o[ the British, place lrom lheir landing on 19 south The Alliesfinallymarched andconsequently Matters werenot cleadyresolved greal naval base atSebastopol.lta ftontalassault. Russian September, headingforthe without either commander having a allis deployed nen morning fte march andmen fromallthree wasabiulallyhotdayfor across'country to do. real undelstanding of{hat the otherintended like flies. haddropped of thealliedarmies were on therightwith theFrench provided varforlheBritish When theydidlakeup position action ofthe theflnt real Themarchhad lst Division onhis andCanrobert\ where Bosquefs2nd Divisionon thecoast at Bulganek even though it Nas onlya briefikirmish ho{,ever, $ras on Canroben\ left Prince Napoleon left. The 3rd Division under withdraw. Shortly afterwards the afiny hadbeen forced to theRussians division, lhese two. TheTurkish 4th Divilionbehind t'alley where they could see rhelights with Forey's outover a dark camped, Iooking behind Bosquet. which which was notengagedin thebaxl, slood a sight firesacross lheirlineof march, of lhousands of watch frontvith lhe 2ndandLight on a lwo division would lheenemys main force in ThBritishdeployed daythey face signalled thatthenext The4ih by rhelst and3rdDivisions. in thevanfollowed Divisions Division covered of these and theCavalry Di./ision was to lheleftrear l.l theleft flank. lseemaD THEPOSITION thatiheSround in frontof the il sho*ed As thesunrose on lhe20th gently down to thenonhbankofthe Alma,the allied armies sloped TIIE ACTION white farmhouses and green withvineyards, ofthegrass inlerspened \tere within range of skirmishen British and Russian Byoneo'clockthe twosmallvillages. shll bounced the first ardllery other and shonly afterwards each was very wailed, the land lhe Russians Across tbe river,where thered-coated linesverysteeply lo a formidable lowards Herethsoulhern bankrose different. his grns fired and Lord Raglan ordered nore within minutes a greatnaturalbatrier.This that presented heightwilh rockyslopes became immediately it deploy into line. Almost infantry to halt and yards inland alon8 the plateau.stretched almost 4000 fron thesea raised enough hadnotdeployed over divisions thetwolading in apparentthat roador pathto offerabreak lineof theriverwithonlytheoccasional itself 2nd Division found ground, hand regiment of the as the left Post Road. called roads was theSebastopol Oneof these itsdefences. Division. of the Light ofthe right hand regiment formingjust in front *hichbroke theCauseway here. through fte barrieratright angles and attempl lo a halfhearted was happening andmade sallwhat randovnto a bddge over thestream. To iheright ofrhisroad a steep Raglan themselves giving the unils to sorl before up and leaving reclify natters lrackclimbed to siationthe Russians upwards a telegraph haderected onlheheights. whilst tothelefll{asKorrganie Hill-steep. butnotas was French theBritish and between Byno$thelackofco-ordination formidable asthecliffsto thenghlof theroad- in frontof whichrhe to halt and lie he ordered the arny worry Raglan and so beginninglo enemvhad conslructed twoeanh redoubts. artillery fireunlilhehadwod slope under Russian down ontheopen wercprogressing fromSt.Amaudof howhisallies DEPLOYMENT Division hadforged camp, Bosquefs Meanwhile, in the French bar, The Russianftont was five and a half miles long and Prince ahead theriverviaa sand and hadsucceeded in nolonlycrossing decided hecould notdefend it bur alsoin climbing heightsSt. Amaud had Menschikov.lhe Russian conmander, the "unscalable"

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immdiately ordercdCanroben's alld PrinceNapoleon's Divisions forward in support andhadsntForey's Divisionoff afterBosquet. Menschikov, galloped stunned by the ners of Bosquet\ success, over ftom Kourganie Hill to seefor himslf,takingeight resrve battaliotrs withhim.Finding thatthebadnews was trueherodebackto hishadquaners withoutcoNDitting histroops. Thescne appeared setfor a $nashing Frerchvictoryoo theright, butalnostimmediately thi0gs began to gowrotrg. Canrobert, advarcing to the left of *here Bosquet hadcrosedthe river, foundthe goingmuchtougher thanhiscollague hadandwas forced to climbtheheights withouthisguns, which weresent to fitrdan easier route.Prince Napoleon's troops, edgiog away fron thebuming village of Bourliouk, st on fue by Russian shells,cane under devastatingly haryfirfiom theheights nearthetelgraph station and theiradvance stalled astheirmorale Dlummeted. To capit all the French ftont had all too few crossing places and Forey\ menmarched foru/aid to addcotrgestion to thecoDJusion. St. Amauds alsauh vas noppedatrdhedespatchei a franricsraff officerto Raglan !o sayrbaruoless Bolqueas menre&ivedsupport theywould have to withdraw. TheBntishhadbeen lyingdou/'l) undersheltfire for rearly an hour anda hall andthisnews from StAmaudhelped to nake up Raglan,s mindabour howlo proced. Hedespatched anaide to orderhisinfantry The red-coated li0sstoodup, dressed ranksandnoved forward with De kcey-Evans'2ndDivisionsplitting to pass eithersideof Oe buming vilage.This,coupled x/iththevine,"rds,gardtrs andorchards which hadto becrossed, didmt make for goodordr,nd thedivision suffered havy casualties astheyattempted to caoss theriver. TheLightDivisioo, under SirceorgeBro$'n,nadefastr progress,

ButtheTth Fusiliershad notfallenbackvithlhei.comradesfromthe redoubt. were They stillexchanging firewiththeKazan Regimenr and, onthebanks of theAlma. theGrenadier and Coldsrream cuardsstood in immaculai order. Theyfiredandchecked the Ruslian columns giving theScors Fusiliers limeto reform. going Whihtthis was onRaglan hadagreed to release onebattalion to aid the beleagured who pleaded French. that rheyfaced eighr battalions. Hehad also ordered acoupleofgunsnptohisvantage poinr andfron here theybegan to shoot intotheRussian batteries on the Causv/ay, forcing them intoa precipitate relreat. before rhey tumed theirfire onlothe enemy\infantry reserves advancing lowards the LightDivision. though even thedepth of the Almain frontof them wasdeceptive. The Russian artilleryfire diedawaya little asihe gunswithdrew Some mencrossed with waterup to theirknees whiht othersstepped under Raglan\ banage and now theGuards Brigade bgan to advance into holes, losttheirfootingandweredrowned. Theenemy musketry uptheslope, driving theneny before them. To their lefitheHighland was healyandcasualties werchigh,butsoon hundreds ofnen were Brigade added theirl|'eight to theattack astheytoo began to move crowded together under thesteep, cliff'like bank on thesouth side of againlt theRussian rcserves, Menschikov\ menfell backandthe Brilish2ndDivision moved In front of thesemenwasan openslope,at leart400yardslong, forward in suppon of the lsi andLightDivisions. The3rdDivision without a scrapof cover on it. Sir GeorgeBrown ard General moved do\rnthe slope towards the AImaasLucan\ cavalry began to gaps Codrington selthexanple in cross by pushing lheir horses up through and a six-gun horse batterygalloped to suppon theHighlanders. thebanks andthensitting in plainvie\I ol theenemy a! theyordered the Sofar the3,400 Russian cavalry hadsa!andwatched astheirinfantry division forward. pushed were firststopped and rhen back. Now they began tomo!e, but Themenhadno opportrnityto form,but scrambled up andmoved theirdirection wasaway fron thebattleastheinfantrycolumns broke toward theenemy, exrending didso,whilsttheRussian andjoined intolineasrhey them in flight. gunsin the Great skirmishen ladeda$aybeforethem.Tle Russian TheRussians were suddenlyin pursued tullretreat. bythefireof the Redoubt vere readyto fire, bul the righl handcolumnof the K^zan Britishartillry including several morebatteries whichhadjoined ponderously Regiment moved forward, tookheavy casualties fromthe Raglan. Hesenlamessage perhap6 forbidding thecavalry to pursu, a Britishriflesandthnwnhdrew to theirformerposition. sensibl move astherewere only900 Britishcavalry ontiredhorses and gaps Then theenemycannon opened fireand began lo appear in the theenemyvastlyouhumberedftem. Theexhausted infantry could nor purswandSt Arnaud advancing British lines assolid shot crashed through them. declined, much to thechagrin of some of his pleading Ontherighl of theDivision's front thefth Fusiliers werestariingto commanders. lackof artillery ammunition andrbefactthat exchange a livelyfire with the KazanRegiment whenthegunsin the theFrench hadleftthei knapsacks behind. redoubtfellsilentandtheunmistakeablesoundsof limbe$wereheard. Andsothebattle ended withtheallies in possession of thefield and TheRussians weretryingto pull theirguns out andthiswasall the the Russians unable to stand again untiltheyreached the safety of encouragement the Britishneeded. With a rushtheys$gedoverthe Sebastopol. earthwall,planted the Colou$of the 23rdon the rampans and captured theredoubt. TI{EARMIES was Therc nosuppoft, however;the 1st Division which was supposed Th British fielded aloralof27,000men in fourdivisions, together with tobefollowing theLightDivision, had infact notyetcrossed theAlma. guns. 900 men of the lighl cavalry and 54 Their casualties were 353 Their inexperienced commanderhad halted them when they began lo killed and 1.630 wounded. gnns takehealTcasualties fromrheRussian in theredoubh andonthe TheFrench had 28,000 men in fourdivisions, together with68gum. figure for cavalryalthoughthe numberq,as At thispointhrd Raglan have seen whatwas should happening and Thereis no separate very low.Tley had 256 killed and1.087wounded. given orders for them to move forward, bul hecould not.Whilst the probably The Turkish Division consisted of 7.000 nen and68guns. Theywere LightDivision hadfought to take theredoubt hk t rdship hadidden nol engaged and therefore look no casualties. path downto theriver,crossed andthentakna up to a knoll haltuay TheRussian armyconsisted of 39,000 men.Theinfantrywrefrom be$r,een theCauseway andtheTelegraph heighls. Fromherehcorild three divisions together with 4 6 rifle. reserve and2 navalbattalions. seemostof lhe Russian armyspread beforehim, but hewasvinually The cnvalry consisted of 4 regimen$. 4 squadrons and2horse batteries. with hisownunits. outof touch They had l22guflsandlost 1,80?killed 2,821 wounded. and was It left to General Aireyto orderthe lst Division forward again, andtheHighlandand Guards Brigadesmarched onto cross theAlma and thn stopped to dress mnks. WARGAMING TIIE BATTLE Meanwhile themen of theLightDivision in thecreat Redoubt wer coming undr fire fromRussian adilleryandwerebeing threatend by The gamewa5foughton an 8' by 4' table.Sincewe couldfind no 3,000nen of the Vladimir Regiment who wereaboutto launcha information derailing theeffects of thefire from rhefleetlyingoff the counter-attack fiom tberight. mouth of theAlma weignored this. No\f a series of inexplicable events occuned. Firstlythe advancing There area lot of terrainpieces onthemarket thatareperfecdy fine {as wrongly column identified asFrench andmostol rheBritishtroops for slopes on the Allied sideof the river, but since thiswasa orc'off 'Cease qe jusrlor oneevening held their fire.Then someone shouted fire!'and abugletookup battle dndwedidnorwanr lo buildanlahing lhe call,to be followed a fewninutslaterby aDother buglblowing rverted ro the expedient of piledblocks of woodandpolystyrene for 'Retire'. Other buglers joind in andthe menof the Light Division lhe southbank and its cliffs. Covering thesewith a cloth proved gave obeyed, up thehad wonground andbegan to retirtowards the prfectly adequate for ourneeds. river,colliding withtheadvancing Scots Fusiliers astheydidso. gadens Russell's map of thetenain sbows and vineyads onmost of TheScots Fusiliers wereforced to fall backaftrgiving theRussians lhe northbankfromAlmatamack inlandto justpastthebridg. Ttere onvolley andnowthescene looked setfor a Russian victory as12,000 werealso gardens on lhe southbankmidway btween thevillages and men poureddown the slopein pursuit of the withdrawing Light fromBourliouk to justpasr These delayed rhe lhebridge. anddisrupted Division. Britishat least andshould berepresented.

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24 tookup position Dragoons. Thenonhemarmof theiradvance on the the Turksin the unoccupied Fediukine HeighL,th centreattacked redoubts ontheCausevay andthesouthem force advanced onredoubt Hillnumber I ontheeminence called Canroberl\ Lord LucanandSn CofinCampbell, with thek slaff,wereakeady riding in th SouthValley as the first shotscrashed out and thy immediately despatched aidestospread theword. Within minutes the Divisionand the ho6e artillerywerbroughtup, Maude's Cavalry andtwohowiizers into action on the battery of lour Gpounders Soing by DerekColeman before counteFbattery fire forced ibemto withdraw. Causelfay TheTurks in redorbt nunber onelought wellandheldoul lor an the defeat of Menschikov at iheAlmaon20September Fouowinglhe without rinforcemenl before falling backleaving hour and a half andwounded before iwo days clearing the lieldof dead allies spent number dead. The Russians eagerly moved nearly one third of their pursue to the on, and so missed their opponunity marching al thesame time began to establilh batteries onthe intorhe redoubl and demoralised Russians. whohad Meanwhile Canrobert. ihe French conmander tostand ontheRiler Katcha,bulthenCauseway. Theenemy made !n atlempt aflerSt.Amaud\death, hadsent twobattalions andlwo over at Sebastapol. Theallies made a flank raken rerreated back to theirbase recently arrived Chasseurs d'Afrique towards the regiments of the then moved round tothesoulh which saw another bief skirmish, march had ordered the lst aDd 4th Divisions action. For the British, Raglan Here the Frenchonce again took set up theirsieSe linsofthecityto lines,but bothwereslowlo startandil wouldbe some ontheirright, andtogetherfromthesiege side of thelinewiththeBrilish rheseaward wer in a position to help their comrades. time before they guns. theirbig began todigin and todeploy rhey was wasnotfinished however. He nol in thecity.but Menschikov Brigade forward to cover theTurksretrealing Lucan sent theHea!ry army and, fron redoublnumber thebesiegers. already building anolher was in factbehind redoublsaw l, but the ganisonof fte second probes to cover thisbuild \rhathadhappened andtenlative designed joining after seleral alanns andput up only a lokenresistance before hemoved againstthe Britishright. up,on25 October in fligbt. rheirfriends was The army'ssupply line and the whole pon of Balaclava nowas the redoubts fell andthe Turksran. Campbel threatened 1E54 25OCTOBER BATTLE OFBALACLAVA, Barkeis batterybackto Kadikoito coverthem. Both the ordered andthentheTurks Heavy Brigade andMaude's battery tookcasualties TI{tr POSITION in redoubts 3 and 4 fled. protecled water is by and theallis Mllch ofthenonh rideol Sebasiapol in timeto watch Lucan hadanivedon the Sapoune Heights was to assault. They therefore moved Raglan decidedthatlhis side toostrong notsatisfied to justsoutb of redoubt 4, but hewas basing themselves at 'dthdrawhiscavalry ro thesoulh of thecitywilh the British round lor theLight Brigade to fall backto wirhlhis position andsentorders and theFrench at Kamiesh. Balaclava Valley wher they were covered by Bosquet\ the end of the South (see nap 1)consisled of steep, open nonhofBalaclava Thetenain guns. was but had to obey. Lucan furious at thisorder, porl plaleaux valleys. The itself lay between anddeep hillsides, high hadbeen halted andhadbegun to By lhisrimesome of rheTurks justnorthof il. to west, running east steep cliffswitha widevalley, theselwounits, there wre only in additionto ground of snallhillocks and lormbehindrhe93rdbut. wasa line of higher consisring There betlveen Menschikov's orerwhelming numbers andsick across lhisvalley and dividing il a fev invalids heights cuning diagonally intennitlent ground was (wider) valleys. This higher intothe North.and Sourh andthe SoulhValley,nothingseemed to be Seen from Balaclava the Woronzoff road.lt the Causevay Heights andil carried called position on the Sapoune but Raglan, in his elevated andwasprotecled by six happening; the alliesouterline of defence formed with infantryand couldseea huge mass of Rmsiancavalry and to Heights, byTurksTheSapoune Hilh laytothewest, redoubts.nanned preparation Valley h for a anillery support moving down the North theea$were theKamaraHeights. tumsoulh to assault thepon. wreaking havoc and Hecouldalsose Cossacks in thecavalry camp thal the enemy thrust was aimed the British commander fnally realised DEPLOYMET\rT move again. He at Balaclava. Nowhedcided thatthecavalryshould in thesiege was baille. Withthemajority of troops Balaclava astrange of the Heary Brigadeto move sent an order for eight squadrons werein effeclattacking the allidnghtrear.a towards linesthe Russians and the 93rdin orderto guardKadikoi andthe Campbell position point Tlisview isenhanced from their ofview. seemingly ideal cavalrycamp. allied troops areexamined. when thedefending cavalry himself, leaving his Lucan, stillfuning,noved$e heavy prolecling and were si{ redoubts theCauseway As mendoned there in command of rheLightBrigade brotherinla* $e Earl of Cardigan asmere sketcheswith buttheseveredescribedat thetime Woronzoffroad. withinrange. to attack anyercmythatcame strictinstruciions guns, three numbers 2 and3 had TheRussians witha spade'. Number 1 redouh had by allied in the NorthValleyhadnov beenstopped any. Alloltheartilleryconsisledof twoeach and none ofthe othershad afterplacing the artilleryfire and,asLucan moved up to theCauseway Number l redoubt had a garrison of Heavies, ironguns fromH.M.S. Dtamond. brokeawayfrom the four squadrons of the enemy cavalry theln.Redorbl maincolumn 600 Turks,vhilsr 2, 3 and4 hadatotalof 800between Valley. andbegan to cross theroadintotheSouth vasunmanned and number6 unlinished. number5 thegorge Tle 93rdwerein tworanks on a smallhill whichguarded of Footand redoubtsthere was the93rd Reginent To bolsterthese thatleddovn to Balaclava andCanpbel hadthmlyingdownon the Brigade and Divisiondividedinto 800nen of the Heavy the Cavalry guns foundtheirrange. Tle reverse slope asRulsian on theCauseway were marines andguns above Balaclava 675 oftheLighl.Ontheheights jllst to theraroftheHighlanders, whohadrefornedwere butat Turks {,hichhadbeen landed fromthefleet. appeared overthe Causvay theyfired onewild the Russian cavalry positions hadassembled a larSe army volley lhese Menschikov To assault and fled once more. (See Librandi. map 1.) very able command ofGeneral underthe to be To the Russians approaching the hill it musthaveappeared but suddenly Campbell hadhismenon their{etand unoccupied. cavalry haltedandthe93rdfireda moving up to thecrest.Theenemy TIIE ACTION waverfor a moment beforethey volleywehich nade the horsenen launched a lhree-pronged attack moved Ar dawnon25 Octoberthe Russians tueda scond andthena third forward again. TheHighlanders pickets of the4th Light timeasalliedartillw through the healTmist,drivingin thecavalry besan lo hit the Russians andwiththatlhe

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squadrons wheeled andmoved off towards Canrobert's Hill. r rdd@8,6 :li:: N Thelgend of the'thin rdline'wasbomandtheimmediate danger appeard to beover,but another, larger,onewaslooming asthemain bodyof thRussian column swept overtheCauseway andinto viev. ., ;^ Thismass of ovr3,000 horsemen crossed the ridgein a blockand began to deployto their lft beforcnoving on al a trot towards th cavalry camp andScarletttsmall band of around 600 heavy mvalrywho werecalmly dressing ranks in ftont of them. TheRussians came on, increasing speed andopening ranksasthey didso.To thobsewers ontheheights it looked asif theHeavy Brigade $,ould becrushed, butsuddenly theRussians haltd. Theystopped in lront of a dry ditchandstared across at Scarlett's menwhowerenowbeingreinforced by the restof thebrigade which hadbeen snt forward by Lucan. WhattheR$sians did not knowwas thal Cardigan, in charge of theLight Brigad, wasonlyaf$,hundred yards fron lheir rightflank andin a po6ition to delivera tllingblov against them.But Cadigandid notnove anddespite plas herefu.ed to let anyof hisregiments move ei$er. T! Russians beganto stir againand at that momentScadett launched hischarg. history was launched. Thesmall number oI rd-coated horsemen hit rhefronrof rheenemy There $eremore than20,000 Russians withartillery on thenanks columnanddrovedeep insideThe Russian rightwinglapped round andattheendofthevalley. Foranomentthey stood staring in disbelief andcurotr theBritish,butastheydidsoasquadron ofrhe5thDragoon asihe LightBrigade trottdforward andthentheguns oashd out. Guadssmashed intorheirrear. It was atthispoint thatNolan, whohadjoinedthecharg, according rodeout of the ranksandacross Cardigan\front,lryingto andtheyhit the Russians from rightand to legend, Lucan sentin the rserves point out thal thywregoingfor the *rong guns, but becoming the It for a nomnt that th liny British force was doomed, but left. seemed instead. It ismore likely thattheaide was hitwhillt srill in within secondsfi$t casualty therear of theRussian mass began to break upand then galloped theranks andonly across thefrontol thebngade in hisdealh At this lime Cardigan vas againasked for pefinission for his by Nolansapparent aclionCardigan rodeon as the reginenls tocharge lhefleeing enemy. butagain hestubbornly refused. lnturiated guns found therange and smashed huge holesinthesquadrons hima rebuke fromLucan. Nowfterewas a pause in thebattle Russian earning behind him.Lucan ledtheHeavyBrigadeforvardsomedislance to the cavalry re-grouped. astheheavy of theLight cavalry, buleventually halted ihem opposite number3 TheRussian cavalry hadretreated .ear Thewholepiclurehadchanged. after hehimselfwas vounded when and thev hadraken more valley and theimminent thrat to Balaclavaredoubt tothefarend oftheNorth casualties than in their o*n earlier charge. andthesupply road$asover. Despite theircasualries guns, theLightBrigade reached theRussian wason the fieldandthe enemy on the By nowthe lst Division them and engaged the nasses of cavahy beyond. hadevacualed redoubts 3 and4.Raglan, apparently feartul rode through Causeway by thecamage theFrnch Cha.seu6 d'Afriquemoved woulddragawaythe gunsfrom lhe caplured Appalled that the Russians W in andengaged the enenyon ihe Fediukine Heights as the sent anambiguous order to Lucan forthecavalry to advance,support redoubh, began to slruggle back. pronising inlantry suppon. whattheBrilish commander had forgolten survivors yetto come. Therecriminations were butthebattle \r,as effectively was lhebroken nature ol theground. From hisposition 500 feel though over. The Russian batteries engnged the infantry asthybegan to Heights see theentire battlefield, fron up on theSapoune he could the$reattoBalaclavawasfinhhed buttheRussians were leftin Valley Lucan could norsee where hewas attheend oftheSouth nuch anive. controlof nost of the Causewav. lhe Woronzoff road and the was invisible. oftheCauseway and $e entire NorlhValley Heishts. by theorderanddeciding lhatheNasto waiiandthen Fediukine Confused wirhthe infantrythat hcouldnot yetse, Lucanmovd the advance cavalry uptotheNorthValley to wail. THEARMIES To thestaff on theheiShts it appeared lhatthecavalry commander Al theslart oftheaction theAllies had arotal of 1,400 Turkish infanrrr, wasjust wastingtime andthen, abour 40ninutes after thecavalry had 550 men of lhesJrd.100 inralids and 1,4?5 cavalry split berween lhe moved, someone thought theysaw artillery horses on lheCauseway. prospect guns Againalarmed at the of losingthe from the redoubls with Raglan dictated another ambiguousorderand sent Captain Nolan T ittoLucan. a fanatic about lightcavalry anda bitlercnticof Nolan. excilable, passed raced down to thevalley and theorder which inslrucled Lucan, to advance rapidly to theirftontandlo prevent theenemy thcavalry canying a$ay theguns. from -&where LDcan read theorderseveral times. From hewas'advance lo rhefronl could onl) mean down rhe NonhValle) . The rcserenosigns ol guns being taken away fromtheCauseway and in facttheonlyguns appeared to bethose atlhefarendofthevalley. Hequeriedlhe order guns were and asked*hich meant. Whether Raglansintention Nolan actually misunderslood or whether in hisexcited state hewas being insolent to anofficer thathe desDised isnotclear. What isknown isthatheDointed lo thebalreries at rheindoftheNorth Valley asthetarget for thecavalry. passed theordertoCardigan whopointed outthedangers,but Lucan andso probably the mostfamous cavalry charge in British obeyed.

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Thehillsides The infantryassault eflectonwhere. andhow,troops the FediukdeHeights andalonglhe Causeway. represented asiheyhadapronounced ground of lo a haltin theface alnostimmediately along theCauseway batlerywhichhad 2 and3 andfrom Maude's rifle fire from redoubts wured6mm Napoleonic troops andagain beetr Once again for thearmies along cavalry novingwestwards TheRussian hastily redeployed. we alsoused with Prussians. wesupplemented our supply of Russians exacdy as expected Valley behaved almost theNonh theCauseway and Napoleonic rulesoncemore(Thesoundof ke gu..l), h^vingtoujd by recoiling shelter ftom the infantryand anillery fire andseeking (withembellishnenls) weplayed theBattle of quitesuitable when them to movewestwards Heights.They continued underthe Fediukine oftheiro\rn bybeing in themidst theirmorale boosted howeverand, andtroops were was to commence ourgame Dawn thetine wechose the again andcrossed they turned south columns. advancing infantry theirpositions at thaltime. deployed to reflect 4 and 5. redoub$ Causwa! belween wehad!o make, lhatthere werealso several otherrules Wdecided bythistime,being theLighlBrigade conmitted Lucan hadalready principally of the period.The CardiSan' very carefulto give Cardigan to reflectthe personalities preciseinstructions and they were effect isa storyin ilself,butit hadapronounced Lucan-Raglan triangle had sonuch thal thRussians columns thefirsttwoRussian harassing i.e.theLightBrigad, been onthbattle andsowe decreed thalCardigan, advance. forced 10halttheir wedecided ordered to. Lucan would nol doanfhing unless specifically to an order tooka hand He sent It wasat thispoinllhatRaglan would oby any order from Raglan act on his own inidative, but could prevent order to to Kadakoi in to move Lucanfor theHeavyBrigade anygiven chance of mis-interpreting to the letler. wilh a percentage obeyed theorder Lucan Balaclava. theRussiancalalryfronmovingon himselfvas playedby a playerwho had noves andtheheavy order, and Raglan thefactthatthe on thirwaydespile calalryproceeded we thetable.Captain Nolan dictated ontoamapandwhocouldnotsee alongthe SouthValleyand\'rerenot hadtumedeastwards Russians himby thatwesimply depicted decided nassuch a one-offcharacler fromjoiningin porl at all. Luckily theywereprevented the threalening of anyorderfor theLight increasing thechances of mis-interpretation andthe by thefirefromBarker\battery on theredoubts theassaull numberone. ironguns in redoubt rhree wasveryhighthroughout and$e halved Britishmorate wedecided whilst otheF going for thehillsto theeasl Thecavalry split,some andcasualties. The Turks minusadjushentsfor both circumstance to the casuahies andwithdren' lookfufther the Causeway, recrossed number one, buttheir {'eremore dif6ult, tbey fought wetlin redoubl out against The infanty assaults of lhe Nonh Valley. end Petered $,ere seen crumbld vhen notreinforced or whenhiends spiritrapidly stalled by fromthose columns lhelackof support resistance, stubborn retiring.We madetheir moraleplunmet for tbesecircumstanc.s. d'Afriqrc arrivalof the Chasseurs and laler by the the Light Bigade but the ineptness of their cavaky Russians began as$raighi C class, divisions. theinfantry for and meant that they too had larger than normal adjustmenls and of theCauseway still in comnand ended wilhtheallies Thesame circumstances andcasualties. from the Fediukine watching ftem and the Russians rhe redoubls Heiqhts. mainlydueto the Russian werelowerlhan historically, C;sualties TIIEGAME or retiring, usually before to p.ess home anyof theiranacks inabiliry to morale player, perhaps with thebenefitof hindsieht, decidd Our Russian $on,notsomuch ftomtheirownabilitiesbut tests. Theallies he ratber of thelhree.prongd assault change fromthehiltoricalplan.Instead start. fromthetardiness oftheRussian beingto inidallyput far more wentfor onein tvo slages, hi! strategy Once Highlslhan wereusedhistorically. uni$ onto $e Fediukine southwards to launch an assault these unitswerein plache planned BIBLIOGRAPHY inlantryandth whilstatthesame tine pushing towards theCauseway, arcopp iirl. Wamer,19?2. Cnmeanwat, westwards alongthe WoronzoffRoad.Redoubl The bulk of his c-avalry gallant . H^nis.1913. Th? sb hundtpd unlil lbe Causeway ononCarroben\ Hill wasto beignored number TheGimeanwat. Judd,1915. been seized. bad 1858. eryeditiotto theGimea.Russell, \r,ere ouis.outed TheBtitish It did notworkoutquiteasplanned. TheRussians ( 196), 1987 OsPrey campaisn l85l-J6. The Bflish amt on piquers much of hisinlantryontothe andgetting by theBritishcavalry Heighls took our Liprandifar longerthanhe anticipated. 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didnotrstonhislaurels Prince Menschikov. theRussian commandr, Th folowing day he following his partial victory at Balaclava. towards lhe Britishznd launched a probein forcefrom Sebastopol, positionon HomeRidge.This probwas Divisionin their isolated withoutmany casualies, butit was anindicator ofwhatwas to repulsed wasignord; It highlighted theweakness ol thisflank,but lhelesson wasmade to poundaway at no redeployment andthealliescontinued worsened, bringingcoldwinds the wallsof Sebastopol. The weather though, for a andhearynin. Theelernents did not deterMenschikov week hebuilt uphisfori:es andthen,at 2 a.m.onaSunday moming, he in atonentialdownpour thatvassoon to tum to hea\ry mist. moved

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ThePo6ilion l*erman ridSrisesvery Ling just southof the River Chmaya, height andhad steeply to anaverage of 4{0 feel.It wasthicklywooded several smallerridgeswhichwerover600feet highrunningoff it (St.Clements, which toSether with threeravines OuarryandVolavia) ledsouthwards towards theBritishpositions. In thcntre of themain ridge wasafeature called Shell Hill. Deep, steepsided ravines called Careenage andVictoria Ravines lay in a lineto rhesouth-west of the ridge,with MikriakovandWellway wasvictoda Ridg Culies running off them.Parallel to these ravines weresteep andthenMiddleRavine. Gennllydopes andthegound wasrcugh, covercdin scrubbyvegetation and littered with loose stones, rccksandboulde6.

The forwardBritish pickets *"." no* a "onruo trn ,n" ,""0,j, elements of Paulov\andSoimonovtcolumns, marses of grey-coated vaguely men sen through theswirling mist. Paulov, wasmoving asplanned. up Ouarry andStClements Ravines whilstSoimonov marched alongtheoest of Iflkerman Ridge. General Dannenburg, overallcommander of the attackon the British,hadin factinstructed Soimonov to attackalong VictoriaRidge, but hisorder had notbeen obeyed, Theforward Britishpositions wercddvenin with ease, but nowthe mist,phichhadcovered the Russian advance, began to hamper them, whatwashappening shilding ftomtheircomftandeK. Theterain also began to takeeffect, theadvance breaking upintomall unitsseparated fron eachother by mist and trees.Smallnumbers from eachside clashed or opened fire at vaguely in thefogandmany of seen shadows thecasualties didnotven theopponenb whofiredon them. see guns It wasnot all badnews for theRussians however, Soimonov's had reached ShellHill andbeganto shootaccurately into the 2nd Division\ calnp.The Frcnchwer also under fire ftom the third Rusiancolumn, butnevenhless General Bosquet managed to rideto the Britishfront with of{elsof aid, offeF whichwertumeddown. general Despite thisthe French kept his unitson the alert, rcadyto marchto supponhis alliesor to defendBalaclava as the situation dictated. Thebattlewasbreaking up moreandmoreinto smallencounteN, duein no smallrart to Gneral Pennefather in command of the 2nd positions Division.Instead of withdrawing hisforward hehaddcided pockets to feedmento themandthse of resislance the seNed to upst attacken' rh)'thm. Riflefire andbayonels v,/ork didsterling atd theBritishloughtu/ell, but sheer weight of numbrs began to tell. TheRussian artilleryfiring lrom ShellHiUhadfoundtherange,andPaulov andSoinonov werc edgingforwardand gettingcloserto eachother. Paulov\ troops managed to pushtheBritishoff the Kitspuraftera tremendous battle andSoimonov wasfeeding 10,0m fteshtroops forward despite thefact that some of hisleading regimenls hadhadnough andwerealready streaming backacross Inkrman Ridg.

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wereagain attackiDg theBritish As in theirearlierprobelhe Russians Pennefather, was right, wherethe 2ndDivision,nowunderGeneral isolated andruberable,onHomeRidge. lte LightDivision camped, camp v/as onVictoriaRidge, onlya mileor soa*ayasthecrowfliesbut separatd fiom themby VictoriaRavineandthe Wellway. The 4th Divisioncamp wassouth-west of the Light Division\ andlhe Guards weresouthof the whdmil The cavalry werenowcamped with the Heavy Brigade at theeastern endof theWellway andlhe remnanls of theLightBrigade nearthGuards' canp. The first, under The Russians deployed in threemajor columns. llas to fendoffanyartempr bytheFrench toaidtheiralliesGorchakov, alld to The second underSoinonovwasto moveout of Sebastopol arack rhe expdied Britift. whilsr rherhird. under Paulo\ . m;!eddown undr ihe Chemaya andup Quarry Ravine .o joitr fromthehighlands, in rheattack ontheBitish. (See map1.) Soimonov

THEACTION
By 4 a.m.on 5 Novembr the rainhadeased, but a hea\ymistwhich to thenvhes andgulieshadtakenitsplace. Dawn $,as breaking clung of lhe UghtDivision, was aheady awake and andGenerai Codrington, inspecting his outposts. Suddenly he became awareof sounds and shadowy novenentsin the fog in ftont of him, thentherevas an was outburst offuing. Realising anattack in progress, hegalloped back to alenhisdivision.

Brigade cameup to join the actionamundthe Now the Guards Battery, losingtheir formation almost KiBpur and the Sandbag Into thisheaif of theircomnander. immediately, much to thechagrin ledoneof hisbrigadesCathcan of the4thDivision fightingSirCeorge a andwithinminutes attracted upontherightofthe Guards Theycame kiled Cathcart himself. heawfire which Nowthiswingof rheBritishalmybegarto fall back,pishedby the cladRussians; then endless streams of g1ey attacks of the semingly regiments appeard andfor a lime the tide suddenly oneol Bosqufs retreated a little. was reversed astheenemy firedandGeneral hadbeen It was nowfivehoulssircethefirstshots menin echelon wasat lasl in a position to launch 6,000 Dannenburg HomeRidge. againsl the3,000 allies whoweredefending formation and Theinist$,as clearing, theRussian artillerywasfiringat Raglan in to setrd hissraffandrheBritishvere tiring. Theyhadno reserves tovards the lreshRussian troopsx,howerein sight,marching against hsitated, but just the 'BarrieC at the endof QuarryRavine.Raglan help and he sent for he lasl decided thai he needed afterteno'clock at GeneralBosquet. andzouaves and upthree battalions of Algerians TheFrench broughi joinedwith the their effectwasfelt. TheCuards alnostinmdialely French andtogethr lhey pushed the ennydownfrom Kitspurwith Home hadreached lhe bayonet. Meanwhile two 18 pounder Suns batterie!on ShellHill. The Ridgeandbegan to fire into the Russian the enemy Frenchaddeda dozengunsof their own and suddenly adillery was rould as ;nfantryfrom the 4th and Lighr Divisions chargedthem. afternid-dayGeneral Tharmarked fte beginning of theend.Shonly Dannenburg realisedthat he was not going to win and beganto wereaboulequalin wirhdraw hislroops.At that time the two sides buttheRussian lolses had been tremendous number. the Bithh were As afterthe Alma the alliesdid not pursu, did nol wishto andthe F:ench exhausted andhadtakenhearylosses Raglan his pursue rhisit wasa victoryandit eamed alone.Despite whilst Bosquetjoined theLegion d'Honor. baton asField Marshal,

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of 19.01)0 men and TheRussian army consisted ofSoimonov scolunn scolumn Paulov s 16,000 infanlryand 96gunsand Gorchakov 38guns, engaged inthe men and 88guns. Oflhse around40.000$ere of20.Ul0 Inkermanfronl. theGuardsBrigade oflhe 1st DiYision.lhe 2nd. TheBritish fielded togelher $ith seven balteries offieldartillery 4rhandLightDivisions pounder guns. and two18 contingent nunbered 6.fi10 front the French On the Inkerman guns. infanlry and12

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players decidd to change fromthehistorical OurRussian once again which plan.Thislime lheywentalong $dlhDannenburg\ orders. Thus Paulov came olerlnkeman historicallf Soimonov hadignored. Volavia pushedhiscolumnsup Ravine andthrough Bridge and Ouarry heignored St.Clements Shell Hill. Forsome rcason Ralineto$ards pushed op Victoria Ridge MeanNhile Soimonov Ralineat thisstage. gening \filh Dannenburg in hisNal'. pushed in {ell for lheRussian. $ith.Bothcolumns All went to start managed lo oulflank andcapture theBrithhourposls andSoimonov rheLightDivision had timetoreacttheLancaster Battery before bul $asslow overall. Paulo! tooktheBarrier. TheBritish reaction his and il Nas some time before faild to follow uphisinidal ad!antage CASUALTIES columns moved againsl Homc Ridge.the Kitspurand Sandbag French, Batter!. losses were: British. 597 killed andl.860wounded. Theallied were nrch higher Soimonov and 750wounded. TheRussian casualiies 130 killed pressing one column was rheLightDivision hard. sending Nounded ofwhom sixwere Generals probing \vith10,729 killed. or prisoners. Ravine in a down Victoria Ravine andanother intoMiddle and 256officers. for theBritish. but double outflanking manoeuvre. Thingslookedbad s aidand\vithin thenlhe4thDivision came up to $e LighrDivision routingback. Withourrules minutes sentthe column in Middle Ravine WAXGAMTNG THEBATTLE armvand\|ithin reireai appeantobeinfectiou5in theRussianCrimean was soldier's battle.principallr afeNminutesthewholesceneon lelthad changed a.unilsof Inkerman kno\|n totheBririshasthe theBrilish $'as done vilhoutdirection fromsenior the 3rd Division waspressed backalong because much ol thefighting came up and Soinonov thisis,il makes it a difficult battle to re-crcale. Victoria officers. Interestingas Ridge. We agamst scale aclions al company levelarescarce. wasai lasl mounling massjve anacks Rules to fightlarge Meanvhile Paulov were not Home hadcome for much of thtimelheAlliedGenerah theBritish right. TheGuards decided thal.since Ridge and$reatening \!e *ouldonlyallow upandsohadRaglan\ stilllooked what was happening in frontof them. two18pounders. butlhesituation sure about gettingledupwith decided withandanyreseflesthatcame up. desperate baddicethrows. ihem tocommandlroopstheywere until lheFrench. which were forward aitheslartofthe aclion. rotake Nhether were or notI A lirtle harsh ontheunits a hand thev invited to workl player do$'n behind theKitspur and butjudgingbyrhe contusion it seemed marched hismen O r Bosquet was across intoSt.Clements round and attacking Paulov in Once more ourtable 8' by4', bui thistimewedeployed Ravine before circling bul thelength of thetabieusing masses of hislftrear. completely bysurprise. rheshorter edges andplayed TheRussians*ere nottaken

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