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 ON THK ai'lJJAai'OPOL KKUNT. 57 period of the fight, an accession of some 550 men.* chap. From the exceeding haste with which the Rang- '. ers were despatched, it resulted that the men marched from camp without having replenished their pouches, and went into action with a griev- ously insufficient supply of both cartridges and caps. IV. Coming now to the Victcjria Kidge, we are still Generaicod- ° . rington's de on the Sebastopol front, but at its eastern ex- fence of the ^ . Victoria tremity, and on ground where General Codrington RWge. (with the 1st brigade of the Light Division) was not only confronted by the Malakoff tower and works, but also exposed on his flank to the enter- prises of the enemy's field army. There was nothing between him and Mount Inkerman ex- cept the Careenage Ravine, and already one of his pickets disposed some way down in its bed had been so effectually surprised and turned by the Catherineberg riflemen that the ofiicer command- a strength of 259 ; and 4 companies of the 88th — the Connaught Rangers — with a strength of some 290. These 4 companies of the Rangers marched under Colonel Jeffreys, for it liappened tliat Colonel — now Sir Horatio — Shirlej' who commanded the regiment was on this day the field-officer in command of the Divisional trench Guard. At a later hour, the No. 2 company of the Rangers having been relieved from picket duty came into camp, and thence marched under Captain Bourke to Mount Inkerman, and operated on the extreme right of the po.sition. Including this company, the entire force brought to Mount Inkerman from Buller's brigade numbered G49.
 * Viz., 4 companies of the 77th under Colonel Egerton, with