BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 313 ofticcrs and 19 sergeants killed, and 81 officers chap. and 102 sergeants wounded ; and of rank and ' file 318 killed and 1438 wounded ; making, with the 19 who were missing, and who are supposed to have been buried in the ruins of the houses in the village, a total loss of 2002. Including 5 generals, 23 field officers, and 170 or the officers of lower rank, the loss of the Russians in killed and wounded was officially stated at 5709 ; and of that number no less than 3121 were casualties sustained by one division alone — sustained by those 16 battalions of the Vladimir, the Kazan, the Sousdal, and the Ouglitz regi- ments which we saw engaged with our troops on the slopes of the Kourgan^ Hill Except the Russians left wounded on the field, there were scarcely any prisoners taken by the Allies ; and by the Russians none. Amongst the wound- ed Russians left on the field and taken by the English there were two general officers. Great quantities of small -arms were left upon the ground ; but of prouder trophies there were few. The French captured a small four-wheeled open The trophies carriage, in which a clerk had been travelling were scanty with some official papers. The English had the gun taken by Captain Bell, and the howitzer abandoned by the enemy in the Great Redoubt.*
- On the following day the French quietly came with an
artillery-team, and were going to carry off one of the guns taken by the English. An English officer caught them in the act, and prevented them from executing their purpose. This entcrpi'ising attempt was the more curious, since it hap- pened that the gun was more than a mile distant from tho
