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 68 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP, ing it was taken prisoner with no less than twelve How General Codrington discovered the com- ing attack, and put his troops in camp under arms, we have already seen, but the ulterior measures he took still have to be shown. He was ably assisted not only by Mackenzie hig brigade -major, and his aide-de-camp Campbell, but also by Major Bunbury of the 23d, who on hearing the outbreak of the battle had come up to offer his services. At first there were only a few companies that could be brought together, but when most of the relieved pickets and the men relieved from the trenches had come in, Codrington assembled al- together about 1100 men disposable for service in the field, and with these prepared to defend his side of the Careenage Kavine.f He had no field-artillery ; and the conditions, this day, were not such that the one gun still left in the Lan- caster battery could be brought to bear eastward under the personal direction of Sir George Brown, but he ap- parently failed to link it effectually with Pennefather's line of pickets on Mount Inkerman. t 'The whole amounting to about 1100.' — General Cod- rington's report the day after the battle. "When the pickets had all come in, his assembled strength on the ridge was 1219. This force included the 1100, besides portions of the Rifles, and of the 7th, 23d, and 33d, a small body of marines, commanded, I believe, by Captain Hopkins, sent up from Balaclava in exchange for an equal number of the Rifle Brigade. It was at the instance of Lyons, who wished to give the marines an enlarged experience, that this exchange took rlace.
 * of his men.*
 * The picket, I believe, had been placed with great care