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 THE MAIN FIGHT. 239 ing to the top of the ])iirapet he called upon liis CHAP, people to follow, and ran forward a few paces, but ' then finding himself alone on the outside of the si Period, work, he came back to his men. Other masses were presently seen undertaking to turn the right flank of the Battery, but the more instant peril still lay in the direction of the body advancing against the right shoulder of the work. That body, indeed, was now striking home, for already one of its soldiery, a little in advance of the rest, had begun to get over the parapet. Captain Burnaby, raising his sword, laid the brave his resist- Eussian dead, and then hastening to repeat the parapet: ^ appeal he had just before made in vain, he cried out to his men, ' We must charge !' James Ban- ws charge croft, a private soldier of the Grenadiers, was the seven men. first to come after him, when he now for the second time sprang up to the top of the parapet and bade his people come on. Five or six other men of his company sprang forward at the appeal of their captain, and Burnaby, saying to Bancroft, ' How many will follow ? ' but not waiting, it seems, for the answer, leapt down to the outside of the parapet. Bancroft, following his captain, was immediately attacked by several assailants, of whom he killed one by a bayonet-thrust in the chest ; but the ne.xt instant, he was so grievously wounded by a Kussian bayonet tearing in through his jaw and the cage of his teeth as to be made to stagger back a few paces before he recommenced his exploits. Captain Burnaby had but just cleared the paiu