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 14G THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP, luacl not yet been done — to 'fix bayonets and ad- ' ' vance.' Without firing a shot his men cleared iBt Period. ^]^Q jQ^y parapet, drove forward under a hail of executed musketry till within forty yards of their enemy, byBcllairs ,,.,, ,ii t-, ,. • with his 183 and then with a loud hurrah, and breaking into a men of the i /. i i 49th. run, went straight at the head of the column. Overthrow The coluiiin turued and fled, pursued by the fire of the " of their assailants, but gaining a good deal of column. shelter from the thickness and the height of the brushwood which grew in that part of the field. Battery. XIX. Array of Further east, but upon an alignment less ad- 6600 ° . Russians vauccd than the scenes of the preceding en- between the ^ . ^ . headoftho countcrs, the Borodino and the Taroutine regi- Quarry ' ° Kavine mcuts, with, bcsidcs, that stray Catherinburg Sandbag battalion which had joined their advance, were still in order of battle upon a front which ex- tended from the Post -road by the head of the Quarry Ravine, to the crest beyond the Sandbag Battery ; and, the mist here not being so dense as to forbid combined movements, the 6600 in- fantry * thus gathered might have been wielded as a single force by any one entitled to command them. It seems, however, that no general officer was present, and the only order hitherto given to these Borodino and Taroutine battalions, was not one of such kind as to engage them in any bold enterprise. The four battalions of the Taroutine, and the
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