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 THE MAIN FIGHT. 391 liausted their pouches, some not having one cart- chap. ridge left. Colonel Horn, too, at this time was ^^' wounded, and for several minutes disabled. 5<;i, Period Presently, the French Chasseurs separated theni- selves from our people — not, however, by falling back to the rear, but rather by drawing off to their right flank as though summoned to other duties.* Thenceforth, it is plain, the two col- unms were virtually masters ; but they ceased to press their ascendant against either the French ur the English, and the combat came to an end. III. All this while, the foremost columns of D' Ante- Amvai of more French marre s brigade had been lessening the distance infantry reinforce- which parted them from Mount Inkerman ; and ments : at length there came up the 2d battalion of the 3d Zouaves and the 2d Algerine battalion, the Zouaves under commandant Dubos, the Algerines under Colonel Wimpfen.i* These troops were ana of French followed by cavalry — that is, by the 4th regiment cavalry: of the Chasseurs d'Afrique ; and these again — at were now apparently told that, to obey the orders directing them to march on the Kitspur, they must bend sharply off to their right. t The French commander vehemently entreated H.E.H. the Duke of Cambridge to give the troops thus advancing the sup- )wrt of the ' bonnets de poll,' that is, of the men of the Guards whom we saw once more getting together under Colonel Cado- gan, after having disper.sed in the copsewood ; but, though favourably entertained for a time, the proposed measure did not take effect.
 * They had inclined too much towards the Post-road, and