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 384 COMBAT OF THE 26TH OF OCTOBER. CHAP, the enemy's forces on Mount Inkerman were in ' retreat. On the right, Evans suffered Percy Her- bert to advance with four companies of the 4:1st ; and as a support to the men of the pickets now eagerly engaged in pursuit, he threw forward his 30th, 49th, and 95th regiments, but — still wary — he halted them before they had passed over Shell Hill, and even indeed upon ground within seven hundred yards of its summit. Mr Hewitt's When at last he had fled clear of his pursuers, Are from the .. . _ p-nr-rr-ii Lancaster the enemy again incurred fare ; tor Mr Hewitt (the naval officer then acting in the Lancaster battery), threw down the part of the parapet which intercepted the fire he had planned, slewed round his Lancaster gun, and was presently hur- ling its missiles into the midst of the retreating force. In the Careenage Ravine, the enemy's discom- fiture was completed by Captain Markham with The enemy some men of the 2d Rifle battalion ; but the Rus- also defeated. . „ ., . , . . , in the sians, betore they succumbed, sustained a sharp Ravine. combat against him in front of the magazine grotto, and seven of their number were killed, the Rifles having five men wounded. Captain Mark- ham and Captain Goodlake between them took an officer and several men prisoners. Whilst engaged at Balaclava in providing against the perils disclosed by the battle of the Victoria Ridge, and it seems they wrought a great deal of havoc. The half-battery, as had been anticipated, drew fire from the ships, and there followed some narrow escapes amongst its officers and men, but not, i believe, any loss.