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 386 THE BATTLE OF INKEEMAN. CHAP. iTieii who must be men ol' the Guards, because they VI. . "' . '. had on the ' beai'skin,' could be seen lying down 5fA Period. ^^^ ^j^^ biushwood ; * and, if only from the pre- sence of many staff officers on horseback, and artillerymen busy with their guns along a great part of the crest, General Bosquet was able to learn that the English still reigned on the Home Eidge, and were there for the time undisturbed ; but for ' divisions ' or ' brigades,' for ' regiments ' or even ' battalions,' he looked in vain. He in- deed might infer, though without being able to see them, that Lord Raglan had troops on the border of the Careenage Ravine, whose hold was at the moment unchallenged, for all in that quar- ter lay quiet ; but by the evidence of his own eye- sight he convinced himself that in front of the ground forming the right of the English position our people had no troops at all.'f It was only at one chosen spot half a mile in advance of Home Ridge that the battle never had rest. From out of the smoke always gathered in who had been operating, as we saw, with two companies of the Guards. His horse, as we saw, had been shot under him, and he was consequently on foot. So few on that day had omitted to wear an overcoat, that his red uniform was singularly con- s]ncuous. t The result of General Bosquet'.s survey in this respect is given very distinctly and very broadly in his official account : ' A son arrivee sur le champ de bataille le General Bosquet vit ' tout le terrain en avant de la droite des Anglais ^vacue par ' nos Allies ; il n'y avait plus d'occu]iee que la crSte qui pre- ' cfede de vingt pas le premier rang des tcntes.' — 'Journal ' d'Operations de la 2""^ Division.'
 * The officer was Colonel Upton (now Lord Templetown),