This
account of the Battle of Inkermann comes from Private Bancroft of the
Grenadiers. He describes the desperate fighting around the Sandbag Battery,
“I
bayoneted the first Russian in the chest: he fell dead. I was then stabbed in
the mouth with great force, which caused me to stagger back, where I shot this
second Russian and ran a third through. A fourth and fifth came at me and ran
me through the right side. I fell but managed to run one through and bought him
down. I stunned him by kicking him, whilst I was engaging my bayonet with
another, Sergeant-Major Algar called out to me not to kick the man that was
down, but being dead he was very troublesome to my legs; I was fighting over
his body. I returned to the battery and spat out my teeth: I found only two.”
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