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 THE MAIN FIGHT. 255 men of the Guards drew together under Colonel CHAP. 1 • • VI Cadogau, the senior officer present ; and this mam ' body, if so one may call it, was destined after 2(ii^mo(j. a while to griher a strength of about oOU. Still, for these and other like efforts applied to the work of reorganisation, time of course was more or less needed ; and, so far as concerns their state of nn 1 • 1 1 11 ^''*' troops efficiency at the particular hour now reached, uomingin the remains of the Guards, and other soldiers com- Tchcm.aya fl:iiik. ing in from the Kitspur by the Tcheruaya flank, must be numbered iii the category of what we have called the 'spent forces.' Their false vic- tory over the left wing of the Russian army was indeed dearly bought.* XIII. Altogether, the few score of soldiers restrained Tiiesoostiii OD liigli by the Duke of Cambridge, and those whom we gioun.i. shall see climbing back in time for fresh strife on the crest, numbered only about 200 ; f but the conflicts these men sustained were of singular in- terest, and must now in their turn be recounted. It is only by the interposed task of pursuing Kitspur will be found indicated post, sec. xvi. of this Second Period. + The estimate is of necessitj'^ a very rough one, but is thus based : — Men held back by the Duke of Cambridge,. . 100 ,, brought up the hillside by Cathcart,. . 50 ,, ,, ,, by Burnaby,. . 30 Stragglers, 20 200
 * The extent of the sacrifices resulting from the fights on the