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 446 TIIK BATTLE OF INKRRMAN. CHAP. VI. 7th Period. Fii'O from tlifi two Russian steam-ships. steep descents of the Mount, or on the marsWancI by Inkennan Bridge, and no longer on the old field of battle, that he might have to encounter fresh troubles. When the enemy had disappeared from the toplands of Mount Inkerman, his two steam-ships at the head of the Roadstead opened fire from their starboard broadsides, and swept the now vacant ground on the eastern part of Shell Hill with l^lasts of round-shot and shell. 3.30. Ad- vance of a French battery supported liy two hat talioiis : result of this move- ment. After the time when the last of the enemy's forces had descended from the Inkerman toplands half an hour was suffered to pass; and then General Canrobert threw forward a battery sup- ported by two battalions of Zouaves to the crest of East Jut.* The French guns, it would seem, wrought some mischief amongst the columns retreating over the marsh, but the steam -ships soon interposed, strik- ing down some of Canrobert's people; and thence- forth the enemy was no longer molested in his eastern line of retreat. this advance at 'about three o'clock,' but agree with the text in placing it half an hour later than the moment when the lant of the Russians disappeared from the Inkerman toplajida
 * The Lainsecq battery. The Frencli otiicial accounts place