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 BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 61 higher up, on that part of the hill which looked chap down upon the Wliite Homestead. He also J brought up his artillery to the slopes of the Tele- graph Height, placing some of the guns in bat- tery with front towards the sea, so as to command, though at a long range, the part of the plateau which Bosquet crossed by the Hadji load. Kiria- koff did not take upon himself to make any other dispositions for dealing with the turning move- ment which threatened his left. Amoii<rst the French who were ^fvininff the Horsemen ... on the ulill summit 01 the plateau, no one seems to have divined the reason why a little body of Kussian horsemen should have made its appearance on the cliff" overlooking the sea, nor why, without attempting hostile action, it had tenaciously clung to the ground. Those troopers were the attend- ants of a man in great trouble. They were the escort of Prince Mentschikoff. XIII. The enemy's survey of the allied armies had Tiie effect of been so carelessly made, and had been so little tunlln^' '^ directed towards the sea-shore, that Bosquet, it upon tiio, . , „ iiiinJ of seems, had already "ot near to the river before PnneeMcut his movement was perceived, rrince Mentschi- koff, with Gortschakoff and Kvetzinski at his side, had been standing on the Kourgane Hill watching the advance of the English army, and giving bold orders for its reception ; but presently he was told that a French division was advancing