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 DISPOSITION OF FOECES. 21 ing the plain of Balaclava as well as the Fediou- chap, kine Heights, would terniiiiate on the hanks of '^- the Tcheruaya, and not lar from the Inkernian ruins. At some distance from Prince Gortschakoff's right, and fronting towards the south and south- east, General Dannenberg, (then acceding to a connnaud which would place under him both Pauloff and Soimonofi"), was to be on Mount Inkermau with no less than 40,000 men and 135 guns, supported, whenever possible, by a fire from two ships in the roadstead.* By means of trcjops moving or stationed between his right tlank and the Viaduct he would touch the Kara- bel Faubourg. So far, the intended array of 62,000 men was to be furnished exclusively by troops of the liussian field-army ; but Prince Mentschikoff's entire line of battle did not end at that point near the faubourg to which we have hitherto traced it ; for his powerful force still collected f Soimonoff, infantry, . 18,829 General Dannenberg < Cossacks, . 100 ( Pauloff, infantry, . . 15,806 34,735 Add 4th battalion of Sappers (see Todleben, p. 469), say ..... 750 Artillerymen for 135 guns, including 54 guns of position and 81 pieces of liglit artillery, at an average of 35 men for each gun,. . 4,726 40,210
 * Numbers as given by General Todleben, p. 446, 447 —