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 352 THE BATTLE OF INKEKMAN. VI. CHAP. Wheu the great trunk column advanced, its ' flanks, as we saw, were well covered by ample 3d Period. )q^[q(3, of infantry ; but these, although moving regiment, abrcast of it, were so far sundered from the con- wing of tral line of march by distance, by the obstructions the 21st ^ '' Fusiliers: of the copscwood, and finally by the dimness of the atmosphere there heavily laden with smoke, that they did not become involved in the fight we have just been observing. Now, however, they, some of them, approached the right hank of that force under Swyny and Ainslie which still lay extended in line on the ground where last we observed it, and still fronted towards the north- east. This body united comprised, as we know, a wing of the 21st Fusiliers, and the main body of the 63d Regiment, troops numbering altogether more than 600 men. The Fusiliers were mag- nificent troops, men of the finest natural quality and highly trained, whilst the 63ct was a body which owed a great proportion of its numerical strength to lads newly and hastily recruited in the city of Dublin, who, until they moved down to the port for embarkation, had never executed so much as even one march. But the love of a fight was a passion which might move the young Irish recruit no less than the proud Fusilier, and give singleness of purpose to two dissimilar bodies engaged side by side in the same conflict. Their united array was about to face round to the east