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 BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 255 lose many moments, the plumed soldiery would chap. be on its flank. 1 The left wing of the Grenadiers was quickly The Duke in the part of the battery where lay the dis- bridge is ■^.   master of mounted howitzer ; and on the opposite or eastern the Great ' ^ ^ Redoubt. shoulder of the work, the Duke of Cambridge, riding up with the Coldstream, stood master of the Great Eedoubt. In its retreat the right Vladimir column was KvetzinsUi still plied with the fire of the Coldstream. Gen- !-md dis- ^^ eral Kvetzinski had his horse shot under him ; ' and presently afterwards he was so wounded in the leg as to be unable to move on foot. The soldiers around him formed a litter for him with their muskets, and the brave man, causing his bearers to march with the rear-guard, continued to give his orders to Ensign Berestoffsky. Pre- sently, however, he was again struck by shot; and indeed he was now almost shattered, beinw wounded in two of his limbs, and in the side. To the last he had comported himself as a good soldier. XXXIII. But whose was the mind which had freshly come to bear upon this part of the fight, and what was the plumed array which, threatening Kvetzinski on his right front, forbade him from further tarrying on the line of the Great Eedoubt ? Before the moment when the Guards and the columns began their fight, Sir Colin Campbell was sitting in his saddle by the left of the Cold