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 DISPOSITION OF FOIICKS. 25 'could the Allies exert to suppoit a threatened chap. ' part of their line ? ' "• To the first question a perfectly complete Thcimm- answer would be hardly possible, but this at enemy coui.i least can be said : The enemy proved that he aggressive could bring forward to fight aggressively in the Open, forces numbering altogether 68,000 men, with 235 guns.* As regards the second question, we shall see AiMountof the Allies placed in straits which oblige them to ],ower).(>s- put forth to the utmost their remtorcmg power, u.e aimbs. and at the same time so favoured by the enemy's mismanagement that, with hardly any hindrance from him, they remain free to march as they choose along the main part of their line ; yet withal, it will appear that, when the 3000 men guarding their weak point are beset by 40,000 assailants, the fresh troops they bring up by de- grees and in the course of five hours number only Men. Guns. Gortschakoff (see note, an^e, p. 20), 22,444 88 62,654 223 TimoviefF, first and la.st,. 5,325 12 67,979 235 In addition to all the.se, there was the above-mentioned force (see note, ante, p. 23) of 3862 men, with 36 guns, which, though not charged with aggressive duties, was operating in the Open; so that out of the whole 120,000 men it was not found necessary to detain for defensive purposes, within or about Seba.stopol, any more, at the very most, than 48.159.
 * Soimonoff and Pauloff, . . 40,210 135