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 472 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP. i)ther quarter — a tire tlmt seemed to come from a distance of about 50 yards. Thereupon, with only his trumpeter, Morris went to the ground whence the new tire had seemed to come, and soon discovered five wounded Russians who were coolly, yet busily, firing from under cover of the brushwood, upon the men of his battery. Morris had his revolver in hand and advanced upon the offenders. They thereupon threw away their muskets, and prayed for mercy. Morris granted their prayer, and left them unhurt on the ground where they lay, but of course he took care to have their firearms broken. III. A misplanted picket of the Light Division was caught, as we saw, unawares in the bed of the Careenage Ravine ; but, laying aside that mishap as one that entailed no grave mischief, would it still be accurate to say that the English were ' surprised ' at Inkerman ? Were the For wceks, they had well understood that an fui-pi ised at attack, if attempted at all, might there be most n enuan j-^Qpgj-'^^;[iy Ventured ; and only a few days before, they had seen the enemy come to make himself at home on the ground, and even rehearse his enterprise.* They knew, too, that for such au cliai). ii. The attack of the 2(3th October, there narrated, was made at noon, and yet Colonel FederoIF proved able to march across the north of Mount Inkerman from west to east without
 * See * luvasion of the Crimea,' vol. v. of Cabinet Edition,