BATTLE OF TIIL; ALMA. 137 Afterwards — but not, it seems, by any forma] CHAP, order to halt — the advance of the 1st Division ' was again stopped for a time; yet Codrington's ^oua'aiii brigade had then be'iun to rush forward. From f h',!"^ '^°'" the jTjround on which he was ridinfj, Sir De Lacy step taken . ""^ by Kvaus. Evans could see in profile the swift disordered advance of Codrington's brigade, and the stop to which the 1st Division had come. He under- stood the danger; and, comprehending at once that the advance of Codrington's brigade was a movement requiring instant support, he took upon liimself to send a message conveying his opinion to the Duke of Cambridge.* The Divi- Ti.eist sion went forward, and, breaking into the en- resumes hl closures, began to work its difficult way through the vineyards. But when a division of infantry extended in AVantofnea line is marched through gardens and walled en- cation along 1 1 r ^ 1 T • ^ ^^^'^ pass- closures, the power oi the general commanding it ingUirough , 1 1 • 1 enclosures must always be more or less thrown into abey- ance, because the want of an unobstructed view and of free lateral communication makes it im- possible for him to know what is going on along the whole line, or to send swift orders to the more distant companies. For a time his author- ity is necessarily dispersed among many; and if the force is moving deliberately and in the face of an enemy, numbers of little councils of war
- Evans sent the message by Colonel Steel, who clianced to
he near him at the time. Steel was Military Secretaiy, and lie seems to have fuUilled his mission in a way which caused it to be understood that the message he brought was an order t'lom Lord Raghin. — A'ote to 3rf Edition.
