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 88 BATTJ.K OF TIIH ALMA. CHAP, who died that poor death were nieu hanging ' back. This kind of struggle did not of course allow the troops to adhere to their order of formation ; but whenever any number of men got together upon ground which enabled them to extend, they quickly fell into line, and this they did notwith- standing that the groups thus instinctively hasten- incr into their English formation were sometimes men of different regiments. Several times the men were ordered to lie down. From some unexplained cause, it happened that the Piussian Sappers wlio had been posted near the bridge, moved off without having destroyed it. The 47th Eegiment, pushing in between the river and the burning village, and afterwards ford- ing the stream a good way below the bridge, was better sheltered from the fire of the Causeway batteries than the regiments of Pennefather's brigade. Colonel Hoey of the 30th persistently worked his men through the gardens and enclosures till at length he was able to cross the river and estab- lish his regiment under cover of the steep bank on the Ptussian side of the stream. Thence, for some time, he maintained a steady fire against the gunners of the Causeway batteries. The 95th, like the other regiments of the brigade, stole forward from one sheltering spot to another; and at one time three of its companies became divided from the rest of the corps, and united themselves in line with the 55th ; but the whole