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 BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 271 might be lliat even in tliis the hour of turmoil chap. I. and defeat the long - suffering Muscovites were stirred with a new tliought, for they never before that day had heard what our people call 'cheers ;' and the sound is of such a kind that it startles men not born to freedom. The three Highland regiments were now re- formed, and Sir Colin Campbell, careful in the midst of victory, looked to see whether the supports were near enough to warrant liim in pressing the enemy's retreat with his Highland Brigade. He judged that, since Cathcart was still a good way off, the Highlanders ought to be established on the ground which they had already won ; and, never forgetting that, all this while, he was on the extreme left of the whole infantry array of the Allies, he made a bend in his line, which caused it to show a front towards the south-east as well as towards the south. The great column of the four Ouglitz battal- stand mad* ions was still on the rise of the hill beyond ougutz ., Til -r, „ nr^n^ battalions. the hollow. It was a force some 3000 stronff. was as yet untouched, and was glowing with the same fire and zeal as when it had come down in anger to support the attack upon Cod- rington's brigade. From the high and command- ing ground where the column stood posted, its officers had been able to see and understand the numerical proportions of the combatants more clearly than any man could who was toil- ing in the smoke of the fight. Looking down from the slope, they had had to endure to see