BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 1-15 front, and posted in the hollow behind the re- chat doubt, they had before them the four superb bat- , talious of the Vladimir Iiegiment. These forces The forces . tiathcrcci weve supported by the four battalions of the against Ouglitz corps, which stood massed m one column on a higher slope of the Kourgan^ Hill. The two battalions of sailors also were in this part of the lield ; and, except as regards his loss of an advan- tageous site for a battery, and his loss too of one gun and one howitzer, the discomfiture up to this time sustained had not lessened his strength in artillery, ]Moreover, 12 squadrons of Hussars and 11 sotnias of Cossacks stood drawn up close at hand on the enemy's extreme right ; so that (omitting the Kazan column, which was occupied with the lioyal Fusiliers) there were impending over our disordered soldiery, then kneeling or lying down by the parapet of the redoubt, IG battalions of infantry in a state of perfect forma- tion, supported by powerful batteries, and by 2700 horse. And by this time there had sprung up amongst warUke 1 -r> • • o 11 p 1 T7- indignation the Paissian infantry on the slopes oi the Hour- of the . . Russian gane Hill a sentiment of warlike indignation, infantry ^ ® on the Any Hussian officer who had been standing on Konrgans
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ground high enough to command a view of the river, must have seen that, from the moment of their first onset on the left bank, the troops which stormed the redoubt were an isolated, and, for the most part, a disordered force ; and even for some minutes after seeing them carry the work, he would be unable to make out that any supports VOL. in. K
