And all were-soldiers with the “ poor bloody-infantry ”.... There’s no oil painting of him either.“ We come from very humble stock.... He was Alexander’s great-great-great-grandfather.It was at Crimea’s Battle of Balaclava in 1854 that Times correspondent William-Howard Russell described a two-deep line of red-uniformed 93rd Highlanders repelling Russian cavalry as a “ thin red streak topped with steel ”....