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 APPENDIX. 419 conversed on the subject, the one who was the least im- pressed with the extent of the confusion thus wrought was Lord Listowell ; but it is only in regard to the extent of the mischief that he differs from the other eyewitnesses. I hear that Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton (who commanded the battalion, Colonel Jocelyn, Colonel Francis Seymour, and others, all agree in stating that the line of the Fusilier Guards was broken by the bodily pressure of the retreating troops of the Light Division. "With the exception of Sir George Brown, T do not remember to have heard of any one present at the battle who held a contrary belief. — Note to 4th Edition. XOTE V. Respecting the Separation of thf. Vladimir Corps into two Eodies. I must acknowledge that I do not gather from the Rus- sian accounts any distinct mention of this separation of the great Vladimir column into two columns of two bat- talions each. Prince GortschakofF's narrative speaks of the column with which he moved as 'the battalions of the (the breast-work), and this is an expression which might either apply to two battalions which had been separated from the other two, or it might apply to all the four battalions of the corps. I have, however, found it so impracticable to reconcile this last interpretation with known facts that I have adopted the former one. Upon this point I am not in terms helped by Kvetzinski's narrative ; but as he himself was clearly with sojne of the Vladimir battalions all this time, and as he had no knowledge of the fact that Gortschakotf had made a charge with battalions of the
 * Vladimir regiment standing on the left of the epaulement '