village of Kadikoi. Standing with the back to Kadikoi, and looking across the valley of Balaklava, the eye rests on four conical-shaped hillocks, the one on the extreme right, known as Canrobert's Hill (from the fact of that General having met Lord Kaglan there after the flank march), being within a short distance of the small hamlet of Kamara, which it ovefi'looks. On each of these hills the Turks had thrown up a powerful earthen redoubt, armed with heavy guns, lent to them from our ships; and in the camp they were known as Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, counting from Canrobert's Hill to our left. These redoubts formed a species of advanced screen to the main position, with which they were connected towards the north-west by a chain of Turkish earthworks. They were, however, a source of weakness rather than strength, as the events of this day fully demonstrated, and, though three of them were retaken after the close of the action. Lord Eaglan wisely determined to abandon this extended line, and thenceforth confined the position within its more natural and manageable limits.
The defences of Balaklava were completed by some strong batteries erected on the steep height which forms the eastern shoulder of the port, and the care of which was entrusted to the Marines. It was clearly of the deepest importance to the Eussians to force a position, the possession of which would have cut oft" the English from their base of operations, compromised the crowded shipping in the i^ort, and in all human probability have enabled them to compel the Allies to raise the siege; and they consequently determined to attack it with all the force at their disi^osal. Early in the morning, therefore, they debouched into the open ground in front of the redoubts, with eighteen or nineteen battalions of infantry, thirty to forty guns, and a large body of cavalry. Eight battalions, covered by a cloud of skirmishers, and supported by sixteen guns, at once attacked No. 1 redoubt, which Sir Colin Campbell states to have been defended by the Turks as long as defence was possible, when, overpowered by numbers, they retreated on the other redoubts, suffering severely as they did so from the cavalry of the enemy.
Other accounts do not give our Ottoman Allies the same credit for this obstinate resistance; but, whatever their conduct in the first instance, there can be no doubt that small delay occurred in their evacuation of the other batteries, from which they were rapidly driven in succession, only to fall, in most cases, beneath the lances and sabres of their ruthless Cossack pursuers, who cut them to pieces in their precipitate flight. Some of those who escaped formed again on the right and left flanks of the 93rd Highlanders, who were posted on a slightly rising ground in front of Kadikoi; but by far the majority pursued their headlong career in the direction of Balaklava, indicating their idea of the last resource, of what they considered as the already defeated English, by shouting to all whom they met, in the frantic accents of fear.
the cabalistic phrase, " Shij), Johnny." The enemy, having gained possession of the redoubts, now advanced their artillery and a large mass of cavalry; and Sir Colin Campbell, finding that his Highlanders were beginning to suffer from the well-directed fire of the former, most judiciously retired the 93rd a few paces behind the crest of the hill. The Russian cavalry now broke into two bodies, the larger of which was destined to engage Lord Lucan's cavalry, while the smaller, but by no means despicable portion, charged the 98rd. So great was Sir Colin Campbell's confidence in this fine regiment, that, after advancing them to the crest of the hill, he permitted them to receive the cavalry in line; and so imposing was the front they thus presented, that, in spite of the flight of the Turks from their right flank, the Eussian squadrons never dared to come within 500 yards of them, but, after receiving their fire at this distance, retired completely discomfited, and did not attempt to renew the attack.