With Lord Stratford in the Crimean War

sh sailors went from their ships to the Naval Brigade at the front, they would capture three Turkish soldiers apiece, ride on the shoulders ofone, and drive the others before them with a long whip, to relieve the first when he should get tired. The poor Turks would then get a few biscuits as payment of their eight miles' stage, and return to Balaclava perfectly satisfied. They were so inefficiently officered, that when Lord Raglan obtained from Omar Pasha four battalions of them to hold the four redoubts which he constructed to strengthen the lines above Balaclava, their officers gave the order to fly before the attack of the Russian General, Liprandi, who thus took the sixteen English field-pieces entrusted to them. The ' Great Elchi' conceived the idea of taking twenty-five thousand men of the best Turkish troops into British pay, under British officers, above the rank of major, leaving the Turkish majors, captains, and subalterns unchanged. This plan proved perfectly... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.