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301 THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA. chap, denly found himself relieved from his assailants _ _J by the sound of the trumpet recalling them ; and both he and a soldier near him — a disabled soldier named Brown — made good their way back to our lines. In like manner also Lieutenant Clowes, whose horse had been shot under him, and who was himself wounded by grape, found himself freed from the Lancers who had had him in their power; but he was so much exhausted by loss of blood as to be unable to drag himself far. After the close of the battle he was picked up by the Russians, and became, of course, their prisoner. The 1 nil When last we were glancing at the state of and the the combat on our extreme left, Colonel Douglas 4th Light ° Dragoons, with his 11th Hussars was pursuing a body of the enemy's cavalry far down towards the strip of low ground which divides the eastern slope of the Fedioukine Hills from the banks of the aque- duct; whilst Lord George Paget, with the 4th Light Dragoons (excepting, it seems, a part of the regiment still busied in resisting the enemy's attempt to carry off some of the guns), was once more endeavouring to co - operate with Colonel Douglas, and for that purpose pushing on his advance in the right rear of the 11th Hussars. The 4th Light Dragoons was in a somewhat disorganised state, brought about by its recent combat in the battery, where each man, speaking generally, had been fighting in his own way. Colonel Douglas had carried his pursuit far