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 BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 213 XXX. After only retiring so far as to Le nearly abrea.st Cil A P. of the Great EedouLt, the column defeated by Lacy '. — Yea's Fusiliers was able to rally and again show a ulffteu in iVont to the English ; * for it had on its right the ule'ilussiaa great Vladimir column, which still stood halted ^'""^ '""" near the parapet of the Great Eedovht. On the rio-ht rear of the Vladimir men there was a double- battalion column, formed out of the Kazan corps.f On the right of that last column, but still further held back, there was another double -battalion column, formed of the Sousdal corps ; and next to these, but much more in advance, and standing on the extreme right of the whole of the Paissian infantry, there were posted the two remaining bat- talions of the Sousdal corps. Somewhere in this part of the field, there were the two battalions of sailors. As an immediate reserve, or rather as a support for all these forces, the four Ouglitz bat- talions were kept in hand on the higher slopes of the Kourgan^ Hill, and were still, as before, massed in column. At some distance on the ex- treme right of the Iiussian position, the enemy's cavalry stood posted as before, confronting from afar, but never provoking, the horsemen of our column seem to have parted from one another. The two bodies /uto which it resolved itself remained, bravely lingering on the hillside, though, having lost most of their olliccr.s, they were in a helpless condition. t The column defeated by the 19th Regiment, and by some of the men of the 23d.
 * After their defeat, the two battalions which composed the