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 BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 247 for brave as were his Vladimir men, a huge mas- cpiap. sive Eussian column was not the delicate weapon ' with which he could try to imitate Colonel Hood, showing a front at once on two sides. Therefore it became but too clear to him that the columns along the redoubt must move to some ground other than where they were, and this almost instantly, for the bending plumes did not cease from coming. But, also, all this while, the columns along the Meantime the colunina redoubt had been more and more feeling the stress along the ^ redoubt are that was put upon them by the iire and the array becoming ^ '- "^ '' distressed of the Guards. After the moment when the bytiiecre of the Vladimir men were brought to a halt by Colonel Guards. Hood's manoeuvre. Prince Gortschakoff, still rid- ing at the head of the column, was violently thrown to the ground. He had received no wound from the shot which caused his fall, but his charger was killed by it ; and, there being no other horseman near, he was obliged to remain on foot. It would seem that the concussion of the fall may have clouded his judgment. At all events, after this accident he walked away to- wards a column which he saw coming down in support.* On his road he passed through the site of the Great Eedoubt, and there found General Kvetzinski. The Prince, walking up to the Divi- sional General, told him that he had had his horse shot under him, and that all the field-officers of the regiment -f- he commanded had been killed. It is not stated that the two generals, thus meet- + Meaniug, 1 imagine, the Kazan Chasseurs.
 * The four Ouglitz battalions.