2-913-982 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Charge of the Chasseurs d'Afrique, October 25, 1854. Crimean War, Battle of Balaclava, extract from French commander Canrobert's description: '"...my brigade of the Chasseurs d'Afrique, on the left of the English army in the plain, endeavoured to come to its assistance, which it succeeded in doing by a bold and much-remarked manoeuvre, which consisted in attacking on the left a battery of artillery that had been keeping up a murderous fire on the English battalions, and which it drove back. We lost about twenty men killed and wounded, and two officers. The loss of the enemy on this point was considerable"..."One of my friends in this squadron", says our Artist, "had his horse killed in the very square - in the midst of the enemy; but was fortunate enough to catch an artillery horse, which he mounted, and got off safely...".'From "Illustrated London News", 1854.