But at the first or second shot fired they mounted, and the heavy Brigade advanced at a trot followed by the Light Brigade and Horse Artillery. The Light Brigade halted near number 3 redoubt and the heavy Brigade halted two hundred yards in advance of it. The Horse Artillery took up position just before it came to number 3 redoubt and opened fire on the Russian Artillery, nothing but smoke from their guns being perceived. The heavy Brigade moved first to its left, then back again to its right, several times. Lord Lucan calls that a demonstration. They could not see the Russians, and the Russians could neither see nor hear the heavy Brigade. If they had, they would not have been firing at the white smoke above the black fog of the Turkish redoubts and our Horse Artillery, but would have sent a volley into the heavy Brigade. Our Artillery was only wasting the ammunition, and when they finally saw the Russians they had no ammunition, and had made no provision to get any. Daylight was now approaching and Lord Cardigan arrived fresh from off his yacht. To think of a General with an important command during an active campaign sleeping on his yacht while his command was about to fight the enemy! Think of his vessel taking up such valuable space in the harbour, while we could not get ammunition landed nor even medicine! He no sooner arrived at his Brigade than he ordered it to retire by alternate Regiments, leaving Lucan and his “demonstration” to their fate. This was done without orders. We were then supporting the heavy Brigade. The Light Brigade retired past the Horse Artillery position just as Captain Maude was being carried off on a stretcher severely wounded. We retired about one hundred yards past his command and remained in that position watching the Artillery fire all its ammunition away. When it did finally retire, the heavy Brigade also retired. Lord Lucan had now found out that an army of Russians had manoeuvred around his cavalry pickets, and that thirty guns and ten thousand Infantry had taken up position within one and half mile of Balaclava and supplies, and opened fire on the three Turkish redoubts before his cavalry pickets were aware of it.