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 TlIK MAIN FIGHT. 85 In advance of the 2cl Division pickets, and on oh a P. ground not far distant from St George's Brow, the [ venturesome Goodlake was present on the morn- ing of the action with 30 men of the Guards.* Not as part of the general or army system of pickets, but rather as a means of securing his camp from surprise, H.R.H. the Duke of Cam- bridge was accustomed to maintain a watch at Quarter-guard Point ; and we shall see that the company of the Grenadier Guards there posted under H.S.H. Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar was at one moment reached by the swelling Hood-tide of battle. Prince Mentschikoff's written orders were de- P/mce Mentschi- livered at five in the afternoon on the 4th of koff-s written November, and, so far as concerned the attack by °^^'![^'*J°^ Soimonoff and Pauloff with their 40,000 men, his I'^^Z'l words ran as follows : — ' It is decided that to-morrow, the 5th of No- ' vember, the English shall be attacked in their ' the heights on which they are established. ' 1. The field army-corps at Sebastopol,-f'. . . ' after having previously moved out from the line under Goodlake, see 'Invasion of the Crimea,' vol. v. of the Cabinet Edition, chap. ii. + Here follows a detailed description of the force.
 * position, in order that we may seize and occupy
 * under the command of Lt.-General Soimonoff,
 * of fortifications, will march, starting from the
 * With respect to the nature and exploits of this roving band