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 40 VARIOUS MOVEMENTS AND CHANGES. chap, a number of Zouaves, performed the gallant ex« L ploit of cutting the 'East Sapper's Road/ Prince Mentschikoff no longer clung to his power of moving guns and wheeled carriages by that line of route, but on the contrary, stopped short its connection with the opposite bank of the Tcher- naya by destroying the Inkerman Bridge ; ( 17 ) so that thenceforth he trusted exclusively to his peaceful, undisturbed communications still effected, as usual, by moving across the road- stead to or from what was called the ' North ' Side.' The arrangements for that last course of transit were carefully systematised, and brought to a high state of efficacy.* In the early part of December, the Russians dismantled the little redoubts on the line of the Woronzoff Road, withdrew their camps from the plain of Balaclava, and thenceforth kept only out- posts on the left bank of the Tchernaya.t After his defeat at Inkerman, General Dannen- berg was removed from the command of the 4th Army Corps, and replaced by General Osten- Sacken. on the part More than once in the course of this period, French; French troops reconnoitred a broad sweep of ter- ritory, which comprised the whole plain of Bala- clava, with also a Line of country extending their recon- beyond towards the east ; and they not only pushed to completeness their search for the t Lord Raglan to Secretary of State, December 8, 1854, No, 120. naissances.
 * Todleben, p. 589.