Captain A. Elphinston 93rd Highlanders - A Brass Mounted Leather Gun Case, with a fitted green baized lining, the inner bearing leather embossed maker's label 'W. W. Greener - Gun Rifle & Ammunition Maker - (Winner at all the Great London Gun Trials) - Prize Works - St.Mary's Square, Birmingham and 68 Haymarket London S.W.', 36cm x 84.5cm x 9cm, together with another similar, fitted, red baized lining, and maker's paper label 'Cogswell & Harrison - 144 New Bond Street - 226 The Strand' 36cm x 84.5cm x 9cm, (2) The 93rd Sutherland Highlanders became famous for their actions during the Crimean War, as part of Colin Campbell's Highland Brigade, they took part in the storming of the height above the Alma River followed by a move to Sevastopol. On 25 October they were stationed outside the British-controlled port of Balaklava as part of its very thin defences, the Russian Army sent a massive force of over 25,000 to attack the port, but only their massed cavalry pushed right forward, part of this threat was parried by the immortal charge of General Scarlett's Heavy Cavalry Brigade. 'The rest, a formidable mass, swept on to charge the 93rd drawn up in line, two deep. "There is no retreat from here, men," Campbell told them as he rode down the line, "you must die where you stand." And the reply of John Scott the right-hand man, was taken up by them all: "Ay, Sir Colin. An needs be, we'll do that." They fired two volleys and the cavalry charge split in half, galloping to right and left and finally into full retreat. Some of the younger soldiers started excitedly forward for a bayonet charge, but Sir Colin called out, "93rd, 93rd, damn all that eagerness! ” This action saw the regiment earn its nickname of The Thin Red Line, the Times correspondent, W. H. Russell, who standing on the hills above could clearly see that nothing stood between the Russian cavalry and the defenceless British base but the "thin red streak tipped with a line of steel" of the 93rd. Later asked why he had been so unorthodox as to receive a cavalry charge in line instead of in a square. Sir Colin Campbell said; "I knew the 93rd, and I did not think it worth the trouble of forming a square.
Captain A. Elphinston 93rd Highlanders - A Brass Mounted Leather Gun Case, with a fitted green baized lining, the inner bearing leather embossed maker's label 'W. W. Greener - Gun Rifle & Ammunition Maker - (Winner at all the Great London Gun Trials) - Prize Works - St.Mary's Square, Birmingham and 68 Haymarket London S.W.', 36cm x 84.5cm x 9cm, together with another similar, fitted, red baized lining, and maker's paper label 'Cogswell & Harrison - 144 New Bond Street - 226 The Strand' 36cm x 84.5cm x 9cm, (2) The 93rd Sutherland Highlanders became famous for their actions during the Crimean War, as part of Colin Campbell's Highland Brigade, they took part in the storming of the height above the Alma River followed by a move to Sevastopol. On 25 October they were stationed outside the British-controlled port of Balaklava as part of its very thin defences, the Russian Army sent a massive force of over 25,000 to attack the port, but only their massed cavalry pushed right forward, part of this threat was parried by the immortal charge of General Scarlett's Heavy Cavalry Brigade. 'The rest, a formidable mass, swept on to charge the 93rd drawn up in line, two deep. "There is no retreat from here, men," Campbell told them as he rode down the line, "you must die where you stand." And the reply of John Scott the right-hand man, was taken up by them all: "Ay, Sir Colin. An needs be, we'll do that." They fired two volleys and the cavalry charge split in half, galloping to right and left and finally into full retreat. Some of the younger soldiers started excitedly forward for a bayonet charge, but Sir Colin called out, "93rd, 93rd, damn all that eagerness! ” This action saw the regiment earn its nickname of The Thin Red Line, the Times correspondent, W. H. Russell, who standing on the hills above could clearly see that nothing stood between the Russian cavalry and the defenceless British base but the "thin red streak tipped with a line of steel" of the 93rd. Later asked why he had been so unorthodox as to receive a cavalry charge in line instead of in a square. Sir Colin Campbell said; "I knew the 93rd, and I did not think it worth the trouble of forming a square.
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