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 CLOSE OF GKNKUAL ACTION. 4G3 CHAPTER Vlf. CLOSE OF THE GENERAL ENGAGEMENT. I. We saw that the enemy's plan for the general chap. engagement of the 5th of November had been ^"' constructed upon such a basis that the failure °emy-s^ of his enterprise against Mount Inkermau must Mount°" paralyse his action elsewhere. The forces left in parai™e'i Sebastopol formed that part of the Kussiau line eisewhlre. of battle which extended along the course of the 'Southside' defences upon a front of four miles, and they were instructed that their duty for the day (as distinguished from their accustomed task of resisting siege operations) was that of troops taking part in a battle ; but except as regards inaction of Timovieff's sortie, the orders for the conduct of aion|^the°'* the action in this Sebastopol part of the field "f their were based, as we saw, on contingencies which did not occur, and therefore had the effect of keeping the garrison idle.* vicfT's sortie, were 111.
 * Its losses ill killed and wounded, irrespectively of Timo-