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 4 1 G APPENDIX. ' disappeared, leaving many on the ground.' A writer, who seems to have enquired a good deal about what was passing at the time when Sir George Brown im- agined that the 7th Fusiliers ' would not attend to him,' lias undertaken the somewhat intricate task of showing how Sir George Brown fell into hi.s error. He thus writes : — ' But we are not only able to free the 7ili Fusiliers from ' the effects of Sir George Brown's wondrous narrative. ' how it was that — honestly, quite honestly — he fell into ' his error, ^fr Kinglake states that, when the 7th Fusi- ' lici^ had defeated the left Kazan column, it was not ' thought wise for the victors to advance in pursuit them- ' selves, but to leave that duty to the Grenadier Guards. ' defeat of this left Kazan column took place "nearly at ' " the very time when disaster befel the centre of the bri- ' In their retreat, some of the Fusilier Guards passed ' through the left companies of the 7th, and these com- ' panics becoming entangled with the defeated soldiery, ' and having on their left front a fresh, a lieavy, and a ' victorious column of the enemy's infantry (the Vladimirs), ' got when the Grenadiers passed through them. It was ' from what he saw there — from what he saw at the ex-
 * and make a wheel to the left. . . . With this acces-
 * sion to Colonel Yea's force, the Russians in a short time
 * "We can do more : we can explain to Sir George Brown
 * The 7th Fusiliers, therefore, at the moment of its victory,
 * remained halted. iIr Kinglake also represents that the
 * " gade of Guards." — (Page 410, third edition.) Attention
 * to this, reinforced by information from officers present,
 * soon discloses the cause of Sir George Brown's mistake.
 * were far from being in a state for any aggressive move-
 * ment, and Avere in great need of the support which they
 * treme left of the regiment — that Sir George Brown formed
 * the notion which he has imparted to the ' Quarterly.' If