While the rest of the men dived behind trees and rough tombstones, however, Churchill, sensing an opportunity and the eyes of the other officers, refused even to dismount. “I rode on my grey pony all along the front of the skirmish line where everyone else was lying down in cover,” he would later confess. “Foolish perhaps, but given an audience there is no act too daring or too noble. Without the gallery things are different.”
