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 452 THE BATTLE OF INKKRMAN. CHAP, men.* The enemy lost altogether 256 officers. ' Bringing fifty battalions to Mount Inkerman, he kept sixteen in reserve, and all those to the last remained sound; but in the thirty-four fighting battalions with which he delivered his successive attacks, dire havoc was wrought. Twelve of them were all but annulled ; and twelve more were so shattered and beaten as to become for the time nearly powerless, leaving not more than ten out of the whole thirty -four which continued to be at all fit for combat ; and even in those — but more especially in the four Okhotsk battal- ions, where the ' killed ' exceeded the ' wounded ' — the losses were ruinously great, by the In proportion to what they achieved, the losses of the English were moderate, but great, very great, in comparison with their scanty numbers. Out of a strength of only 7464 infantry collected on Mount Inkerman, with 200 cavalry and 38 guns, they lost in killed and wounded 2357, of whom 597 were killed.-f* Of their officers 130 were struck, 39 being killed and 91 wounded. It is believed that of the Guards engaged in their false position by the Sandbag Battery, nearly a half were either killed or wounded in the space of an hour; J and in the right wing of ' regiments, ' comprising each on an average more than 2800 men. t Official Return by our adjutant-general ; the numbers be- ing got at by deducting the losses which did not occur on .Mount Inkerman. t The stren.fjth of the Guards nt Inkennaii was 1331, but the Knglish.
 * Viz., the commandant of the artillery, and five chiefs of