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 234 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP. VI. colunui of Eussians then already engaged in theii march across the slopes of Mount Head, and pre- 2d Period, paring to take his place on the crest he had fatally left. Cathcart merging his troops in the Kitspur fight: cliarge of liis 40U men under Forrens. XII. By this determination of Cathcart's he aligned. so to speak, on Crofton's right, and thus merged both himself and his 400 men in that lengthened fight on the Kitspur to which we are once more returning. It is as one of the partakers in that struggle that we must now see him act. The four companies of the 68th, under Colonel Henry Smyth, with the two companies of the 46th, under Captain Hardy, formed up on their left, had already deployed on a front towards the body marked out for attack ; and, the brigadier, General Torrens, now placing himself at their head, these 400 men * in line closely followed by Cathcart and his staff began to move down the steep. Cathcart some time before had caused them to leave their greatcoats, and they were the only considerable body of infantry who on this day disclosed their red uniforms. Traversing difficult, obstructed ground, and incurring after a while heavy fire from artillery, f as well as from the troops in their front, they still worked their way down with a keenness which — even in the eyes of an enemy looking up from some distance below — t Their red jackets drew fire from 16 guns on East Jut.-- Todleben, p. 472.
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