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 362 THE BATTLE OF INKEKMAN. CHAP. VI. 4th Period. Course taken by the enemy's pursuing coluinu Its effect. The nil Lfiger drawn eastward to act with the 6th of the Line. LanKuagi,' held by the Frcnoli staff ollicer sent to ask aid from Bosquet. descended to lower ground on the riglit bank of the Quarry Ravine, and the enemy's victorious column continued to advance, but not in the very wake of the French. It moved southward along the high ground, thus turning instead of pursuing the defeated battalion. By this fiankiug movement the Russians at once put great .stress upon their adversaries, (icneral Bourbaki withdrew the 900 men of the 7th Linger from the fellowship of the English on the west of the Post-road, and placed them near the 6th of the Line, thus providing that the two battalions which he had in the field should now act together, and be ready to afford to each other a mutual support. A French battery brought up at this time to the top of Mount Head gave wel- come support to the infantry, and also drove back a column which was undertaking to reoccupy the Sandbag Battery ; * but General Bourbaki, it seems, now considered that all hope of avoiding another retreat must depend upon the speedy accession of reinforcements. "f An officer of the French staff — bareheaded and extending his naked sword in the air — came galloping back to the Isthmus, came vehemently asking for Bosquet, said his people were turned by the movement made on their Hank, and declared that unless they could be supported — nay, supported by two or three + I infer thi.s from wliat follows, ami assume that the staff officer spoke with due authority from the IJrigadier.
 * The 1st battery of 17th artillery brigade.