Lieutenant-General the Lord Raglan commanded the British Army and
General François Certain Canrobert commanded the French Army.
Prince Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov commanded the Russian Army, while the Russian assault on Balaclava was commanded by
General Pavel Liprandi, Menshikov's second in command.
The Russian attack was led by
General Liprandi with four columns of infantry that crossed the Chernaya River an hour before sunrise.
Major General Gribbe led three battalions of the Dnieper Regiment, a regiment of Uhlans, a sotnia of Cossacks and ten guns to seize Kamara to protect the left flank. In the center the assault on Canrobert's Hill was led by
General Semiakin with five battalions. This was subdivided into two columns —
General Scuderi had the Odessa Infantry Regiment and six guns and
General Rykoff had a cavalry brigade, the Ural Infantry Regiment, and two horse artillery batteries. To his right
General Levontski had three battalions of the Ukraine Infantry Regiment and ten guns and
General Semiakin had the Azov Infantry Regiment, the Dnieper Chasseurs, and sixteen guns for the attack on Redoubt #2. The cavalry followed the infantry in support. On the Russian right was the 1st Brigade of the 16th Infantry Division with three battalions of the Vladimir Regiment, four battalions of the Suzdal Regiment and fourteen guns under
General Jabokritski. These were stationed on the Fedukhine Hills to protect the Russian right flank.
One of the officers who was taken prisoner other prisoners that the Russian troops that attacked Balaklava on the 25th were under the command of General Liprandi, and consisted of 17,000 infantry, 5000 cavalry (of whom 2000 were Cossacks, the remainder being regulars), and 62 guns, of which 20 were guns of position. He said that he understood their loss was one General wounded, and 25 other officers, besides about 550 men, killed and wounded.
On October 29th Captain Fellowes went again with a flag of truce to the outposts of the Russians in the valley of Balaklava. He was immediately met by an officer who gave him a letter from General Liprandi in reply to Lord Lucan’s of the day before; from which it appeared that they have only two English officers prisoners, namely, Lieutenant Chadwick, adjutant 17th Lancers, and Cornet Clowes of the 8th Hussars, both severely wounded - the former speared in the neck, and the latter in the back. Both had their horses shot under them, and it was in attempting to return to our lines that they were pursued by Cossacks, and wounded in the manner I have described. Several other wounded officers had been brought in to the Russian camp after the action of the 25th, but none had survived through the night. They had also from 30 to 40 men prisoners, the majority of whom were wounded. There was also a Piedmontese officer of the Sardinian army taken prisoner. He was one of several officers sent by his government, and attached to the Headquarters of the French army, and, having come with the French Staff on the 25th, foolishly joined in the charge of our Light Cavalry, had his horse killed under him, and was himself badly wounded. The Russian officer brought also a letter from Clowes to a brother officer of his regiment, in which he stated that they were very kindly treated, and received every attention and comfort that circumstances would admit, and that they were to leave for Simferopol that evening, to which place most of the other prisoners had already been taken.
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