406 APPENDIX. ' What do you think, General, of tho aide-de-camp, after
- such an order being brought to us which has destroyed
' the Light Brigade, riding to the rear and screaming like ' a woman ? ' Sir J. Scarlett replied, ' Do not say any ' more, for I have ridden over his body.' Lord Lucan was present at this conversation. I then rode to the place from which we had moved off, and found all my brigade there ; and, upon having them counted, there then were 195 mounted men out of 670. I immediately rode to Lord Eaglan to make my report; who said, in a very angry way, 'What did you mean, sir, by attacking a battery ' in front, contrary to all the usages of warfare and the ' custom of the service 1 ' Upon which, I said : ' My 1 Lord, I hope you will not blame me, for I received the ' order to attack from my superior officer in front of the ' troops.' I then narrated what I had done as described above. Lord Lucan put in an affidavit upon oath that when I retreated I passed eighty yards from him. He was close by when I spoke to General Scarlett. I came up to Gen- eral Scarlett quite slowly. I afterwards galloped to the remains of the brigade re-forming. N u T E I V. Statement laid before Mr Kinglake by Lord Cardigan. Having been kindly promised by Mr Kinglake that ho will make me acquainted with the nature of the observa- tions he intends to make in the third volume of Lis history of the Crimean war, I am anxious to give him the fullest information with regard to all which occurred connected
