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 32G Tin: ifAi/r ox the (■■j^j.^^P the front, ami ])laccil in battery l»etvecn the ^'- culumiis. lu this order, anil liaving a portion of the cavah'}' coverini^' the rear, with the rest of our horsenieu oil its left fhink, the Enj^lisli army bivouacked for the night. When General Martiniprey learnt that this plan had been adopted by the J:^nglish, he was so well pleased with it that he resolved to advise a like disposition of the French army. During the battle, the waggons which hjUowed the Englisli army liad, of course, been kept far enough in the lear to be, for the most part, out of fire; but when the fighting had ceased, they were brought down towards the bridge, and soon became so crowded as to breed much confusion. For hours, and even, I think, all night, men were eagerly seeking after others win mi none could help them to find. On the night which followed the battle, men M-ere sickening and dying of cholera in numbers as great as before. That which lay in the sight of the troops when the fight on the Alma had ceased, was new to the bulk of the soldiery, and, in one feature, new to all. In general, the wan-ing armies of state of Uie Europc liavc bccn followed by a hateful swarm, fiel<l after the battle, who make it their livelihood to hover upon the march of the regiments, alighting at last upon a field of battle, that they may rifle the dead and the wounded. And there comes, too, that other and yet fouler swarm which strips the dead of their clothing and accoutrements with so strange