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 366 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP. VI. 3d Period. The fore- most band uiuler Haines. Colonel Ainslie mortally wounded. Post estab- lislied by Haines within the Quarry Raviiie. Colonel Swyiiy — a cliiet' much beloved — was succeeded in the command of the 63d Regiment by Major Eobert Dalzell.* The victors by this time had become broken up in pursuit, and their foremost body of troops was one led by Colonel Haines of the 21st, who had acting under him some forty men of his own regiment, with besides a few men of the 63d. Colonel Haines pushed on his advance till he reached the part of the Post-road which our people had long before cut by digging a trench across it. There he came to a halt, and conceived the hardy idea of maintaining a post at the spot. His chief, Colonel Ainslie, adopted the plan, but whilst rid- ing down with some men to carry it into effect, this, the able and honoured commander of the 21st Fusiliers, received a mortal wound. His in- terrupted task was completed by another. Haines not only established the post, but at once began to make use of it. Sheltered from the Eussian artillery by the steep hillside on his left, he not only plied with his musketry the bodies of troops standing oathered on the line of the Post-road stricken in this battle so many as nine met their deaths or their wounds in the course of that lengthened advance which bega^ vvitli the charf^e we saw executed on the left of Home Kidge, and was now drawing towards its close in the jaws of the Quarry Ravine. The one officer who fell at a later moment was Ca))tain Curtois. The names of all the ton killed or wounded oflScers will be lound in the Appendix, Note XIV.
 * It is believed that of the ten oflBcers of the 63d who were