Their generals had told them that they would annihilate their foes, their priests had blessed them, and assured them of the protection and succor of the saints.

But the British were still coming on, and would not be denied.

The infantry behind the battery began to retire.

The artillery, left unprotected, limbered up in haste, and although three times as numerous as the men of the Light Division, the Russians, still firing heavily, retired up the hill, while, with a shout of triumph the broken groups of the 23d, the 19th, and 33d burst into the battery, capturing a gun which the Russians had been unable to withdraw..