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 190 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP, battery ; but there, once more under shelter, and ' not pursued, they were able to rally. These id Period, attacks wcre from time to time repeated, and always, it may be said, with the same result ; for the enemy was in every instance forced back from the brow, but never pursued so far down as to be prevented from reconstructing his force upon ground close under the ledge. VI. Advance of Meanwhile, but at some distance in rear of the Fusiliers Grenadiers, the Scots FusiKer Guards had been advancing in line under a good deal of fire, and already suffering losses ; but the battalion at length was halted, and the men, after having closed in, were made to lie down. When the against two Grenadiers (as before narrated) had faced round colunms on the north to the east, they no longer covered the front of front. ' '' ° the Scots Fusiliers ; and Colonel Walker galloped forward to reconnoitre the now unguarded ground which lay straight before him. On his right, whilst he rode, the Grenadiers were successfully fending back their assailants from the eastern steeps of the Kitspur ; but presently when at the crest, and looking down thence in the direction of his own front, he saw two of the enemy's columns coming up unopposed from St Clement's Gorge. His orders had been to form on the left of the Grenadiers, but the emergency emboldened him for once to use his own judgment. He led his battalion straight forward, and having soon come