+------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |3rd Hussars | - | - | - | 1 | |9th Lancers | - | - | - | - | |14th Hussars | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | |10th Lincolns | - | 1 | 7 | 53 | |24th S. Wales Borderers | - | - | - | - | |29th Worcesters | - | - | 2 | 6 | |32nd Cornwall L.I. | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | |53rd Shropshire L.I. | - | - | - | - | |King's Royal R. | - | - | - | 1 | |61st Gloucesters | - | - | - | 9 | |Roy. Munster F. | 1 | 5 | 9 | 135 | |Roy. Dublin F. | - | - | - | - | |35th Scinde H. | - | 1 | 2 | 11 | |36th Jacob's H. | - | - | - | - | |Q.O. Corps of Guides | - | - | - | - | |2nd Q.O. Light Infantry | - | 5 | 11 | 127 | |11th Rajputs | - | 6 | 10 | 38 | |103rd Light Inf. | - | - | - | - | |119th Multan | - | - | - | - | +------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ CHAPTER XIX BATTLE HONOURS FOR THE CRIMEAN WAR, 1854-55 Alma--Balaclava--Inkerman--Sevastopol. The perennial quarrel between Russia and Turkey entered on a new phase in the year 1854, when England and France, espousing the Ottoman cause, despatched their fleets into the Baltic and a combined naval and military expedition to the Crimea. The command of the British army was entrusted to General Lord Raglan--a veteran officer, who had served on the Duke of Wellington's Staff in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, where he lost an arm, and who for many years had held the important post of Military Secretary at the Horse Guards. He had never exercised the command of an independent body of troops, and his experience of war was not of recent date. The whole campaign was grievously mismanaged, but the chief blame rested with the authorities at the War Office, who neglected to provide the army with the thousand and one requisites for troops waging war in such a climate as a Crimean winter. It was retrieved by the bravery of our troops and their cheerful endurance of sufferings--sufferings that might have been avoided by the exercise of common forethought. The army that landed in the Crimea on September 14, 1854, numbered some 27,000 men, with fifty-four guns, and was distributed as under: _Commander-in-Chief: Field-Marshal Lord Raglan._ Cavalry Division: General the Earl of Lucan. Heavy Brigade--Brigadier-General J. Yorke Scarlett: The 4th and 5th Dragoon Guards, the Scots Greys, and the Inniskilling Dragoons. Light Cavalry Brigade--Major-General the Earl of Cardigan: 4th, 8th, 11th, and 13th Hussars, and the 17th Lancers.