B.VTTLE OF Till-; ALMA. 21 9^ from llie enemy's tuucli.* At one moment, the chap. foremost of the assailants were so close, that a " soldier of the Fusilier Guards received a wound in the hand from a bayonet. It was then that the Fusilier Guards suffered the chief part of their losses. By its retreat, the battalion seemed, as it M'ere, to draw the enemy forward ; for the gi'cat Vladimir column, which had hitherto stood halted within the redoubt, now broke out over the i)ara- pet, and undertaking pursuit, began to glide down the slope. For some time, a great part of the Fusilier Guards remained in confusion on the lower part of the slope ; but Dalrymple's, and also, I think, Jocelyn's companies, were rallied so quickly as to be enabled to partake of the fight which engaged the Grenadier Guards ; and, before long, the main part of the battalion had not only been re-formed in advance of the road running parallel with the river, but was briskly resuming its place in the centre of the brigade of Guards.-f- In the course of this struggle grave losses befel the Scot« Fusilier Guards. Lord Chewton and 3 sergeants were killed. Colonel Dalrymple, Colonel Berkeley, Colonel Hepburn, Colonel Hay- garth, Astley, Bulwer, Buckley, Gipps, Lord En-
- It was for liis resolute defence of the colour at this juncture,
that Lindsay received the Victoria Cross. + In the report which the Duke of Cambridge addressed to Headquarters the day next but one after the battle, H.R.II. states that the Fusilier Guards re-formed ' with the grcateni 'alacritij.' Holograph MS. Report of the 22d September 1S54, by H.R.H.
