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 STATE OF Tin-: CAMl'MGN. 7 •/ice ill the n])eii field if, in aid of tlic Englisli citap. when attacked by great numbers at their extreme _ . J right, General Canrobert should consent to with- draw troops from his siege-corps. V>y the route it would have to take, Prince Napoleon's ])ivi- sion lay at a distance of about six miles from the Next towards the right, but on the other or eastern side of the man-of-war harbour ravine, and distributed across three successive ridges, there lay those portions of the Englisli army — namely, Sir Kichard England's Division, Sir George Cathcart's Division, and General Bul- ler's brigade — which had in their front the two systems of siege-works called Chapman's and Gordon's Attacks. The daily task of the troops in the several The primary camps of General Forey, Sir Eichard England, trooj.s. Sir George Cathcart, and General Buller, was to help in the siege operations and maintain the defence of the trenches. If Lord Kaglan, when assailed by great numbers, should be forced to call up his siege -troops to aid the defence of Mount Inkerman, the distances that must be Their ais- traversed in order to reach the scene of the Mount n?-" conflict would be these: by Buller's troops, ^'™*°' about a mile and a half ; by Cathcart's, about two miles and a half; by Sir Richard England's, al)out three miles. On ground to the right of Buller's camp, or in codrington-s other words, on the Victoria Ridge, General Cod- position aud rington with his single brigade had a double task
 * Isthmus ' leading to lukermaii.