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 384 THE NIGHT ON THE BULGANAK. CHAP. The first brigades of the 2d and Li'^lit Divisions , L were drawn up in line parallel with the river, and some hundreds of yards in advance of it. The first brigades of the 1st and 3d Divisions were placed in an oblique line receding from the left of the Light Division, and going back to the river's bank. The troops thus deployed formed, with the river, a kind of three-sided enclosure, iu which the principal part of the cavalry and the encumbrances of the army were enfolded. The second brigade of each of the divisions already named was formed in column in rear of the first or deployed brigade. The 4th Division and the 4th Light Dragoons were placed in observation on the northern side of the river. Finally, Colonel Lagondie, one of the French Commis- sioners at our headquarters, was requested to suggest to Prince Napoleon the expediency of his drawing his division somewhat more near to the English right.^ Our troops piled arms, and bivouacked in order of battle."!* There was a post-house at the point where the road crossed the river, and there Lord Rnglan passed the night. Upon the supposition that the Allied armies might be promptly attacked on the morrow, their situation during those hours of rest was certainly, as all must see, critical ; but when morning • Colonel LagonJio fulfilled his mission ; but on Lis return, being a ncar-sighteil man, ho rode into the uiidat of a Cossack picket, and was taken prisoner. t See the I'lan.