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 THK MAIN FKIHT. 103 forward the 41st Regiment under General Adams chap. towards his rit^lit front. In the same direction, ' but with orders to halt and take post on the right ^^^p^i^ of the Home Eidge, Colonel Percy Herbert moved up one wing of the 49th under Bellairs ; whilst on the opposite or left side of the field the other wing under Dalton, together with a wing of the 47th, under Major Fordyce, was pushed forward to the head of the Mikriakoft' Glen. For a while, the 95th remained posted on the reverse slopes of Home liidge ; but before long, its scanty strength was divided into wings, of which one under Champion advanced towards the Sandbag battery, whilst the other under Hume puslied forward in the centre of the field. As to the 55th, it had furnished that day a large proportion of the 2d Division pickets, and the companies so employed were already out fighting at the extreme front. Thus, then, with the exception of some companies of the 47th and the remnant of the 55th, not already engaged at the outposts, the whole of the 2d Division was sooner or later taken off from the heights which constituted the natural stronghold of the Inkerman position, and for the most part pushed forward in numerous small bodies under separated leaders, who whilst working in mist and through brushwood, were not to be easily reached by any command from Headquarters. From the time when this diffusion of troops to- scantiness wards the front had fully taken effect, the whole left to defend the number of English infantry then left to defend heights. the Home Pddge, or, in other words, to guard the