for a couple of guns 174 BATTLE OF THE ALMA. CHAP, at hand. The enemy's generals would therefore ' infer that a large proportion of the Allied force had won its way into the heart of the Eussian position. This was the view which Lord Eaglan's mind had seized when, at the very moment of crowning the knoll, he looked I'ound and said, ' Our presence here will have the best effect.'* Then, glancing down, as he spoke, into the flank of the Causeway batteries, and carrying his eye round to the enemy's infantry reserves. Lord his appeal Haglan Said, 'Now, if we had a couple of guns liere ! '* His wish was instantly seized by Colonel Dick- son f and Captain Adye, both of the Koyal Artil- lery, and one or two other officers. Captain Adye and one or two others rode off in all liaste. The rest of the group which had followed Lord Eaglan remained with him upon the summit of the knoll ; and now facing eastward, and making use of their field-glasses, they began to examine the battle. There was much that awaited their gaze; for the time when Lord Eaglan attained this singular vantage-ground was a little anterior to the moment when our troops, led by General Codrington, sprang up as already narrated, to crown the left bank of the river. The Light Division had not then begun to
- I heard him say so, and say so immediately upon crowning
the knoll. + Colonel Dickson of the Artillery. It was the happy acci- dent of his being with Lord Eaglan as chief of the staff of in- terpreters which gave liim the opportunity of rendering the aei'vices narrated iu the te.t.
