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GENERAL CAMPBELL'S ATTACK. 177 by low "round not altogether unsheltered, whilst chap. . VII also guilty, they knew, of assailing them with its !_ heavy cross-fire, the Artakoff Battery seemed to TheArta- be the sort of foe they might challenge. The tery. position of the work too was such that, to attack it would be virtually to attack the Kedan at that same re-entering angle which, as people under- stood, was the goal pointed out by authority. Troops acting in the contemplated direction would be able to avoid the Abattis by turning its flank. These men of the 57th, however, had not yet taken their course when they all at once found themselves joined by another small body of men. The covering party of Riflemen who had led Theiiifle- . i i i i men quit- the advance became aware before long that they ting their . -,. ground; were not supported by troops in their immediate rear, but afterwards on ground further west per- and forming • • j • Ti up with ceived the 'mam column emerging from below some men of ° y the main the end of the parapet, and with this force deter- column and •"• *- others. mined to act. They came, and formed up along- side of the bulk of the 57th men, now also joined by soldiers from other regiments, who perhaps were the lawless intruders of whom we before had to speak. Having with them their new chief The united forCG TTIOV" Colonel Warre and also Major Inglis, the men of ing against ° the Arta- the 5/th and the other troops now acting with kocrBat- them advanced against the Artakoff Battery ; and its chief, Colonel Inglis. It was in elucidation of young Stan- ley's apostrophe to the regiment at Inkerman when he said : ' Men ! remember Albuera,' that I once before referred to the long-cherished words. Ante, vol. vi. p. 305. VOL. IX. M
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