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 280 IHK BATTLK VF INKKKMAN. CHAP. Grenadier Guards ])roved able to fend off great ^^- masses. It shielded the men with the colours id Period, fj-oiii all the vehement onsets directed against their then rear, and by setting their energies free for combats in the opposite quarter, enabled them to fight on, and fight through in the teeth of the intercepting battalion. The survivors of the men who cut through under Wolseley had already come in ; and, the final success of their movement being added to that of the small band with the colours, as well as to that of ' the twenty ' who assumed the task Complete of a rear-guard, it results that the enterprise of ofthri^o'' the 150 soldiers who broke out of the circle h^d beeir ° drawn round them by 2000 men, was now at all by^he" " points complete. They, or those who survived enemy. ungtrickeu, had victoriously fought their way home. When the Duke of Cambridge, after brushing his way past the lakoutsk battalion, got to find that he had become separated from his troops, he Anxiety began to endure bitter anguish, and was driven theD?ikeof almost to distractiou when minute after minute elapsed without his being able to learn what had happened. He became possessed with an idea that the Guards were perhaps lost ; and his grief — roused to phrenzy by this cruel thought — was hardly allayed when Percy Herbert said cheerily, though in language almost harshly prosaic — ' The ' Guards, sir, will be sure to " turn up." ' As respects the great bulk of not only the Gunrds, but also all the rest of our soldiery who Cambridge.