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 THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA. 37 outer line of defence had not been adopted, our chap. cavalry, with its attendant troop of horse-artillery, ' would still have been camped in the plain. On Canrobert's Hill there was thrown up a The works tit • t it constituting slight breastwork, with its salient towards the the outer lmu of de- north-east ; and along the whole line of the Cause- fence. way Heights there were formed as many as five other earthworks, each smaller and weaker than the one on Canrobert's Hill. Of these six works some were open at the gorge, and some closed, but they used to be all called ' redoubts.' * The work on Canrobert's Hill was known as the Eedoubt Number One, and the five other works were distinguished by successive num- bers ; -f- but the one which, in this way, received the name of Number Three, was sometimes also called ' Arabtabia.' The works were executed by Turkish labour slight under the direction of an English Engineer officer.]: the works words, as, for instance, like the word ship (which may either be used in a very general sense, or else may be taken to desig- nate a three-masted vessel of a particular rig), the word 're- ' doubt ' has practically two meanings, one general, the other distinctive. Lord Raglan— the most accurate of men in his language— constantly used the word 'redoubt' in its general sense, applying it indiscriminately to works which were open at the gorge as well as to those which were not ; and so did Sir Colin Campbell. T I adopt the nomenclature which obtained so generally as to render any other inconvenient ; but I may usefully mention that some — and amongst them Lord Raglan — did not include the work on Canrobert's Hill in the numerical designation. With them the work common! v called Number Two would be Number One. and so on. t Lieutenant Wagman, I believe : but I hear Captain StantoD iOO
 * I may usefully mention once more that — like several other