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 DISPOSITION OK FORCES. 29 strength towards the seat ui' the real attack. The cua p rest of the garrison was enjoined to devote itself ;__ to the objects of the battle as distinguished from all other tasks. Its troops were to disregard the fire of the siege-guns, to exeH their artillery powers against any columns of infantry which might come within range, and finally, if confusion should be observed in the French or the English batteries, to move out in force, and seize tliem.* Ne.xt, still following the enemy's line of battle from west to east, we come to the part of the plan which provided for an attack on Mount Inkerman. Soimonoff, issuing from the Karabel Faubourg, and Pauloff, coming up from the bridge at the mouth of the Tchernaya, were to ascend the northern steeps of Mount Inkerman; and Dannenberg, then taking command of the 40,000 men thus assembled from the east and the west, was to carry all before him in that part of the Chersonese, overwhelndng at once the 3000 men under Penne- father, but pushing his ascendant yet further in a southerly direction by rolling up the line of any force bestowed along the Windmill Heights which nnght still be attempting to guard them against an attack from the east. Thus far, all was to be achieved by sheer strength of numbers, but the ingenious part of the plan will be learnt by observing the task allotted to Prince GortschakofT, whose forces pro- Mbller's order. The last one in Prince Mentschikofi's general order of the 4th November-
 * The earlier clauses of this instruction are given in General