A History of the Coldstream Guards, from 1815 to 1895Ross, J. (John)
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A History of the Coldstream Guards, from 1815 to 1895
Ross, J. (John)
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901; Great Britain. Army. Coldstream Guards
The names of these Officers are: Colonel Hon. G. Upton, commanding
Battalion; Captain Hon. G. Eliot, Acting Adjutant; Lieut.-Colonels
Hon. V. Dawson (commanding the four companies that first left camp,
viz. Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 8), Lord C. FitzRoy, J. Cowell, and J. Halkett;
Captains L. MacKinnon, C. Strong, C. Wilson, H. Bouverie, P. Crawley,
F. Ramsden, and H. Tower; Lieutenants E. Disbrowe, Hon. W. Amherst,
and C. Greville; lastly, Captain Hon. P. Feilding (Acting D.A.A.G.
First Division) is here reckoned as a Regimental Officer, since early
in the day his horse was shot, and he then joined and fought with the
Battalion.
Belonging to the Regiment, and also actively engaged with the enemy,
were Lieut.-Colonels T. Steele and P. Somerset on the head-quarter
Staff; and Captain Hon. A. Hardinge, D.A.A.G. First Division.
On piquet, and holding the heights over the valley against
Gortchakoff’s demonstrations, were Lieut.-Colonels Newton in command,
Wood, and Carleton; Captains H. Armytage, and Sir J. Dunlop; and
Lieutenant Heneage; with Nos. 6 and 7 companies.
Of the Medical Officers, the Battalion Surgeon, J. Skelton, had been
invalided home, November 1st; Assistant-Surgeon Wyatt was present,
also Quartermaster Falconer.
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Dannenberg’s advance was directed against the Sandbag battery, a work,
although quite unfit for defence, and worthless when gained, yet served
as a rallying-point, which the enemy endeavoured to capture, and which
we determined to defend. Round it and near it, therefore, there surged
the bloody and lengthened contest in which the Brigade was about to take
a leading and conspicuous part. The attack was of a far more fierce and
formidable nature than those which preceded it, and which were almost as
child’s play compared with what followed. Instead of yielding to an
impulse to fly when the heads of their columns recoiled before our
impetuous charges, as had invariably been the case in the early morning,
the Russians, still assailed by the same dauntless and romantic British
courage, now fought with greater determination; they worked round our
flanks and rear, and refused to be carried back by the retreating bodies
which our men repulsed. The advance, in short, was better regulated,
better fed, and better covered by artillery.
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