Length of Stabling Number of occupied by Horses each Regiment. accommodated. Feet. Lord Lucan’s depôt 430 106 6th Inniskillings 330 92 2nd Greys 455 130 5th Dragoon Guards 270 78 1st Royal Dragoons 390 108 11th Hussars 90 26 4th Light Dragoons 120 28 13th Light Dragoons 153 34 8th Hussars 129 26 4th Dragoon Guards 488 122 ——— ——— 2855 750 ——— ——— This quantity of stabling was about 150 yards less than half-a-mile long. The regiments were brigaded in the above order; the depôt being on the right; the 4th Dragoon Guards on the left. The stabling was not turned out of hand in this consecutive manner; but after the depôt for the sick horses was finished, the hutting for the cavalry was commenced simultaneously for each regiment in proportion to the number of artificers each could furnish. As the work progressed—not waiting for the actual completion of each hut—horses were daily added to the general number accommodated, protected at night by loosely boarding up the open ends to screen the animals from the frost and snow drift. In this way sometimes eleven, sometimes twelve horses were every day picketed under cover. Considering the small force of mechanics employed, the extreme cold of the season, and the dread frost which pinched the men as they laboured, the construction of the stabling was really a masterpiece of rapidity; and Lord Lucan who had just then been recalled, was so well satisfied of the thorough zeal and exertions of corporal Hawes, that one of his Lordship’s last acts before leaving the Crimea, was to send for him on shipboard, and present him, in writing, a testimonial which spoke of the corporal’s qualities and his Lordship’s admiration of them.