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 TJIE MAIN FIGHT. 219 would troop away laterally in order to get round chap. by a Hank. ' The heaviest of the attacks at this time was one 2fZ/'ertod. 1 • 1 1 /~»i 1 1 Attack on undertaken with great resolution by the Okhotsk tiie nort). . Ill '■'oiit and battalions. Collecting on ground near the head the left ° *= shoulder of St Clement's Gorge they so made their onset, of the o J ' Sandbag that whilst hotly engaging the Scots Fusiliers with Battery, the right of their column, they forced their left into the Sandbag Battery by its northern shoulder. Thence thronging heavily forward, they began to roll up the line of our people ranged under the parapet, and already had fought their way on as far as the first embrasure, when some men of the Grenadiers, and some of the 20th Regiment, and some, too, of the 95th (with whom Captain Car- michael was seen), collected themselves for a blow, and then fell upon the intruding mass with such impetuosity as to thrust it back out of the Bat- tery ; and the rest of the column then bending its result, under the power of the Scots Fusiliers, the whole force was overtlirown, and driven fast down the hillside. For a while after this discomfiture, the Okhotsk AiuUon the north battalions kept aloof in great measure from the front, fight, and two of them even quitted the Kitspur ; but these sturdy troops, we shall find, soon proved able to re-form, and gather up their strength for fresh efforts. Still, it resulted that on the north- ern front of the English there now was for some, time a lull. From first to last, a distinct character adhered to the combats maintained on the eastern flank of