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 82 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP, for the Canrobert Redoubt was a work which had '__ 110 other purpose or use than that of strengthen- ing our defences against what were never at- tempted, that is, attacks from the east. This part of the Chersonese could be distinguished from afar by the trunk of a dismantled wind- mill, long familiar to the eyes of our people ; * and it constituted the only approach to Mount Inkerman from ground lying south of the Isth- mus. When coming to take part in the fight, reinforcements, whether English or French, were all of them destined to pass by way of this Windmill Eidge ; and here, too, or on ground very near, when the moment should seem to be ripe, Prince Gortschakoff was to crown the heights with more than 20,000 fresh troops. strength of Ljing caiuped at the Isthmus, and having al- under'^*'^ together a strength of a little less than 3000 in charge foot,-f- with 12 guus uudcr Colouel Fitzmaycr, the Inkerman 2d Divisiou — a hard-worked, but zealous and ever warlike force — kept watch on Mount Inkerman, by maintaining an extensive system of outposts. J Tiie chain On the right rear of the camp the chain fur- thMe^°*'^ nished by this Division linked itself to the ex- tremity of the line of pickets there maintained by windmill still marking the ground as in the time of the war. + 2956 — see table in Ai)pen(lix. t See note in Appendix, showing how the i)ickpts were fur- nished on the eve and morning of Inkeniiau.
 * In the autumn of 1869, I found the massive trunk of this