COMBAT OF THE 26TH OF OCTOBER. 371 the third battery (Wodehouse's) sent up, as we chap. saw, in good time by the Duke of Cambridge.* L_ As regards the Careenage Ravine, the only Troops occu & . . pyingthe troops there at first were a picket of the Light careenage Division (which, however, was quickly drawn in) and 60 volunteers of the Guards commanded by Captain Goodlake ; f but these last were joined towards the close of the combat by some men of the Rifles under Captain Markham. On the left bank of the ravine, or in other The victoria words upon the Victoria Ridge, there stood the right Lancaster battery, and there, the main picket of the Light Division was stationed. The one gun then remaining in the battery was a ' Lancaster ' manned by some seamen under Mr Hewett. But before the critical moment, which we shall by and by reach, General Codrington had so saga- ciously watched the development of Federoff's ad- vance as to be able to detect a spot on which the Russian infantry, if persisting in its southerly movement, might be advantageously assailed in flank by a fire from the Victoria Ridge; and Captain Singleton, J having come up in great haste with half of Morris's battery, was directed to undertake the task. The captain's practised eye told him that it would be vain to make the at- tempt without bringing forward his guns to a
- With this battery Colonel Dacres was present, as also
was Captain Wodehouse (who commanded it), ant? Captain Hamley. f Respecting this force under Captain Goodlake, see not*, post, p. 377. X Now General Singleton, R.A.
