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 BATTLE UF THE ALMA. 157 the enemy might have iuHicted grave losses; but chap. apparently there was some spell which hound him ; _ , for when the Vladimir column had moved forward to the front of the breastwork, it used a strange abstinence, attempting no movement in pursuit, and coming at once to a halt. Of the two missing pieces of ordnance which the enemy had yearned to recover, one, they saw, had disappeared;* whilst the other (the howitzer) was found lying on the ground dismounted, and it proved so un- wieldy that Kvetzinski says liis Vladimir men were unable to drag it away. It renuuned in the redoubt, -f During this conHict the five battalions J which stormed the redoubt had undergone cruel slaugh- ter. In the 23d rie^iment, besides Colonel Chester, lo.ss.s of Wvnn, Evans, Conolly, Eadcliife, loung, An- ments which •> ' ' "^ 1 -n 1 stormed the struther, and Butler, and 3 sergeants, were killed ; work, and Campbell, Hopton, Bathurst, Sayer,§ and Applethwaite, and 9 sergeants, were wounded. Of the rank and file 40 were killed and 139 wounded. In the 33d, Lieutenant Montagu and 3 ser- geants were killed, and Colonel Blake, Major Captain Bell. t And is the howitzer before spoken of as being now at Wool- wich. t These five battalions, observe, were not quite identical with the ti-oops of equal strength which followed Codrington to the top of the bank. They no longer had with them the Royal Fusiliers, but had received the accessions which brought back their strength to that of ' five battalions.' § Sayer W'ls one of those struck down by that salvo-like di*' charge which preceded the dismantling of the redoubt.
 * This was the sliot-giui, now at Woolwich, that w:is taken by