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 170 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP. VI. 2(J Period. The ap- proaching reinforce- ments. The reinforcements destined to reach Penne- father in time to share, sooner or later, in the now impending fights of this Second Period were : Two field-batteries despatched from the First, and one from the Light Division * some 1200 of the Guards,f and 2000 men brought up by Cathcart from the 4th Division,]: so that ultimately the 1400 English infantry, before standing ready to meet the next coming attacks, would be increased to about 4700 ; and two battalions of French in- fantry, with a strength of altogether 1600, were also approaching.§ Of these succours, the three English field-batteries, and more than 700 of the Guards,!! with the Duke of Cambridge present in person, were already so close that, for the purpose of any fight on Home Kidge, they might be almost regarded as present. Coming after a victory which had expunged from Mount Inkerman more than twenty Russian battalions, these reinforcements, though small, might still have sufficed, it would seem, to make good the defence of a position in which nature by Colonel Dacres, Captidns Paynter and Woodhouse command- ing each a battery. The battery furnished by the Light Div- ision was commanded by Captain Morris, but the captain's chief was Colonel Lake. The troop of horse-artillery attached to the Light Division was at Balaclava. t 1244, in addition to the two pickets of the Guards — Good- lake's and Prince Edward's — which were already in the field. J Altogether 2217 were contributed by the 4th Division, of whom 2066 (being all of them except 151) were in time for the second fight. § 1665— viz., 6th of the line, 757, and 7th Leger, 908 i 757.
 * The artillery furnished by the 1st Division was commanded