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 164 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP, maintenance of this safeguard was judged to be ' needful. Prince Edward, as before, with his picket at 2d Period. One tliird part of the Quartcr-guard Point, Major Fordyce (with Grant's troops 8.6 Penne- forcc conjoiued) overlooking the approach by the father's disposal Wellway, Colonel Jeffreys on the Mikriakoff left to watch   thewestern Suui" and bcsides, for some time, Colonel Egerton skirts of ^ ' ' ' ® Mount established near the head of the Glen — these Inkerman. watched against any fresh onslaughts directed from the west of Mount Inkerman. It is true that in the course of this Second Period there took place on Eger ton's right a strong onset of Eussian battalions which enforced upon him a parallel movement to ground less advanced ; and he was afterwards brought back to aid the defence of the Home Ridge at a critical moment ; but on the other hand, when reinforcements from the 4th Division were approaching from the direction of the Windmill, a wing of the 21st Fusiliers, 200 strong, under Lord West, was pushed forward to a spot near the one which Egerton vacated ; and upon the whole it may be understood that from the opening of this Second Period until the close of the action the troops thus thrown out to guard the western skirts of Mount Inkerman numbered always as much as one thousand. They wei« troops which had come at the first with a strengtli of nearly 1200, and constituted one-third part of the 3600 infantry which our people had brought into action.* • Prince Edward, Fordyce, Grant, Ef,'prton, and Jeffreys came Into action with a strenj^tli of altogether 1166 ; and the Eng-