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a great extent cut down in tlieir ranks as tliey stood, and the remainder,
finding resistance liopeless, sought refuge in flight. Those who accuse the
fugitives of cowardice, should consider how few human beings ever have,
from a mere point of honour, submitted to be needlessly and helplessly
slaughtered.
It would be difficult to conceive an engagement where both systems
were more fiiirly brought in contact, and more thoroughly tested. It
was a front to-front onset, and ample time was given for the use of
musketry, and never at any tiuie was the old-fashioned musket more
effectually employed. The destruction of six hundred men by three
volleys from 3500 musketeers, is a feat of arms as yet unsurpassed — even
by the Enfield — at least a most intelligent officer, Avho served in the
Crimea, said he simply did not believe it, as he had never seen anything
like it in his experience with the modern arms. At all events, it must
be conceded that the men must have been proficient in the mode of
fighting to which they had been trained.
Having thus described the battle, I shall next proceed to discuss the
nonsense Avliich has been written regarding it.
J. M. W. S.
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