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 STATE OF Tin: CAMl'AIGN. 9 now be shown was to (IcIViid tlu3 groinid occupied chat. by the Allies, or in oilier words to cover the J siege. V. It was on Mount lidcerniaii tlmt attack was to oi-siiosition Ol tllO llOUI 8 be most surely expected ; and the force so posted ^^■^'^.'^^I'.j ,, ^ as to be having, from its position, the more im- s'«oe. mediate charge of the ground, was the 2d Eng- lish Division. This Division (commanded on Tiie2d Division. the day of battle by General Pennefather *) lay camped near the ' Isthmus ' which joins Mount Inkerman to the main of the Chersonese upland, Init was charged with the defence of all that half of Mount Inkerman which extended to the then recognised border of the enemy's dominion, and accordingly threw out its pickets to ground which was nearly a mile in advance of its foremost tents. It had a strength of nearly 3000 foot, and 12 pieces of field-artillery.-f- The outpost duty had been so arranged that from the extreme right of Codrington's outlying watch ill the Careenage Eaviue, the chain M'as continued by troops of the 2d Division, and by them carried eastward till it met the re-entering line of pickets which extending from north to south watclied to- wards the valley of the Tchernaya. On the south sliip suffering from illness. Sir De Lacy found strength to ride up and be present in the field of battle, but without resuming the command. t SO.'ie infantry, all told. Sf-e A]i]>endix, Note II. Including his artillerymen, Pennefather's strength was about 3300.
 * In the absence of Sir De Lacy Evans, wlio was on board