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 BATTLE OF TIIL; ALMA. 137 Afterwards — but not, it seems, by any forma] CHAP, order to halt — the advance of the 1st Division ' was again stopped for a time; yet Codrington's ^oua'aiii brigade had then be'iun to rush forward. From f h','''!"^ '^°'" the jTjround on which he was ridinfj, Sir De Lacy step taken . ""^ by Kvaus. Evans could see in profile the swift disordered advance of Codrington's brigade, and the stop to which the 1st Division had come. He under- stood the danger; and, comprehending at once that the advance of Codrington's brigade was a movement requiring instant support, he took upon liimself to send a message conveying his opinion to the Duke of Cambridge.* The Divi- Ti.eist sion went forward, and, breaking into the en- resumes hl closures, began to work its difficult way through the vineyards. But when a division of infantry extended in AVantofnea line is marched through gardens and walled en- cation along 1 1 r ^ 1 T • ^ ^^^'^ pass- closures, the power oi the general commanding it ingUirough , 1 1 • 1 enclosures must always be more or less thrown into abey- ance, because the want of an unobstructed view and of free lateral communication makes it im- possible for him to know what is going on along the whole line, or to send swift orders to the more distant companies. For a time his author- ity is necessarily dispersed among many; and if the force is moving deliberately and in the face of an enemy, numbers of little councils of war he near him at the time. Steel was Military Secretaiy, and lie seems to have fuUilled his mission in a way which caused it to be understood that the message he brought was an order t'lom Lord Raghin. — A'ote to 3rf Edition.
 * Evans sent the message by Colonel Steel, who clianced to