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 BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 243 another mind, as we shall see by -and -by, was chap. bringing its strength to bear upon this part of the ' battle. If the English array puts a grievous stress and upon ?,. . /-. • 1 • a general Upon the soldiery ot Continental masses, its who has ., . . cliarge of pressure is not less hard upon the mind of a columns, general who has the suffering columns in his charge. It not only condemns him to know of the havoc that is rending his people upon a small space of ground within the reach of his own sight, and his own hearing, but afflicts him besides with a sense of being largely outflanked ; and, although he may be really contending with foes who are but few against many, he sometimes becomes oppressed by a belief that he is overwhelmed by mighty numbers. General Kvetzinski was with the right Vladimir column. He was a brave, able man, and we have already seen something of what the relative numbers were with which the Russians and the English were fighting ; but it impressions seems that the spectacle of the extended front upon the mind of presented by the English array broke down the Kvetzinski General's sense of his own comparative strength, iish array, and put upon him the belief that he was cruelly outnumbered. Even the sight of the wide chasm there was between the two battalions of the Guards did not lift the weight from his heart. ' The enormous forces,' said he, — ' the enormous ' forces of the enemy made our position a very ' dangerous one.' It was near the eastern shoulder of the redoubt that he sat in liis saddle. Every moment he