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 304 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP. VI. 2d Period. Coiiiliat fought l)y the 57th. firing another ronnd, linil)ere(l ip and made o(f Id great liaste. It was only on the approaeh of fresh columns that the now scattered fragments of Horn's vic- torious soldiery, and, with them, Vaughan's little band, began to fall back from the far advanced ground they had reached in the eagerness and heat of pursuit. Colonel Horn's wing of the 20th was never forced back to the crestwork. Some- times losing, sometimes gaining ground, it re- maijied fighting out in the front. The Russians thus overthrown drew with them into retreat the force which had constituted their left claw ; but the colunm which had formed their right continued to hold the grotmd gained, and was still on the slopes of Home Ridge. Against this the 57th was destined to act. The regiment coming up under young Captain .Stanley, wa^s placed on the left of the ground from which Horn's attack had proceeded, and some way in front of the crestwork, but lying down on the ground to let our gunners fire over it. General Goldie approaching spoke proudly of Colonel Horn's charge to the men of the 57th, and then launched them against that protruded column which stood in their front. It is sup- posed that when these 200 men of the 57th were nearing the massive column, Stanley saw, or imagined he saw, in his people some tendency to waver. At all events, he thought fit to utter an inciting apostrophe. Forty-three years had passed since the day when — encompassed on all