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 THE MAIN FIGHT. 263 taliou on that Fore Ridge which formed part of chap. the EugUsh Heights was plainly one of great value ^ 2(i Period. as a means of swaying the battle ; but it is difficult to infer that General Dannenberg perceived the of the ISkoutsk advantage which fortune had placed in his hands, battalion on 1^ ^^ 11- thoFore for he made no visible effort to follow anu drive RiJge. in the wedge. Still, a trophy at all events, if not indeed a prize of great brilliancy, was lying almost within reach. Adhering to the crest they had been suffered to occupy, the troops of tliis lakoutsk battalion kept watch on what still could be seen of their late assailants, and the other small bevies of red-coats dispersed lower down in the brush- wood; but some of their men fronted northward, and these spreading out on the north-eastern slopes of Mount Head, looked down into the rear and right flank of the Sandbag Battery. There, surrounding the colours of a regiment, they saw, besides some led horses, a few score of tall foot- soldiers, distinguished by their black, lofty head- gear. This lakoutsk battalion had not before m(<t the Guards. XIV. Without as yet knowing their peril, the Duke Troops on of Cambridge and the hundred men near him were Caiubiuige's (PIP • 1 • 1 • ^'^^^ frout thus cut on by a lorce interposed m their rear ; as weii as but also two other battalions — the two battalions of Okhotsk which Percy had seen — were now coming up to attack them from the direction of their left front.