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 THE MAIN FIGHT. 191 within range of the columns, was going to open chap. fire, when violent words assailed him. '. ' Where the devil are you going to, sir ? Form 2d Period 1 " ' Iiiteri)osi- ' on the left of the Grenadiers! This perenip- tionofthe ^ ^ Duke of tory recall to strict obedience was from the Duke Cambridge, ^ and change of Cambridge; and it seems that the vehemence of direction of His Itoyal Highness intercepted explanation, for Colonel Walker instantly faced his battalion to the right, and marched in the direction required for forming on the left of the Grenadiers. He did what little he could to check the enemy from whom he was thus drawn away, but the move- ments required by a strict obedience to the Duke's order were continued for about five minutes. At the end of that time, General Bentinck, com- manding the brigade, rode up much excited and ordered the colonel to move his battalion to the spot from which the Duke just before had with- drawn him. The roar of the fight made it hard interposi- ., , tionof to gain the ear of the troops, and their colonel's Bentinck, ° ^ and counter- voice, weakened bv a recent illness, gave wav march of tiu ' - ' o. battaUon. under the effort ; but happily General Bentinck (who exerted great energy) found means to make himself heard, and the Fusiliers were at length countermarched to the ground from which the Duke had withdrawn them. The Eussians meanwhile had pushed on their advance, and the two solid columns apparently became more or less interfused ; for what now met the eyes of the Scots Fusiliers, and at a dis- tance of only about 50 yards from the brow, way Thema.-* •^ "^ opposed t«. a single though far-spreading mass of the grey- tiie«»-