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 uiarosrnuN ok fukces. 19 CHAPTER II. DISPOSITIONS FOR A Gl'^NERAL ENGAGEMENT. The Inkermau Sunday perhaps may be said to chap. owe all its renown to the tight which raged many ^^- hours on one chosen corner of ground ; but the The conflict " ' of 5th Nov. enemy's front of battle, that day, was several regarded as •' > ./ » a general miles greater than any that Mount Inkerman action. alone could afford him, and his measures along the whole line were so well knit together by a single, all-governing purpose, that the aggregate of the strife they provoked acquired distinct unity, and constituted a general action. To all the other operations of the day the fight on Mount Inkerman bore indeed huge proportions, but still, after all, though immensely predominat- ing, it was only a part of the battle. On the eve of the action, the seamen and the DisposUioi. land forces under General MoUer formed still as sian'forces' before the established garrison of Sebastopol, but of'thrbrttie General Soimonoft' with the whole of his column