16 BATTLE OF THE ALMA. cu A r. Gth lUflcs ; * and some of these troops had orders • to advance and skirmish in the vineyards. Near Tdg^naiiy ^^^^ bridge, and with materials in readiness for {i?ep'irt"of destroying it, there was posted a battalion of sap- assai'iedV.y" P^s and mlners. f Astride the gi-eat road, and the English, disposed along the chain of hillocks which runs across the Pass looking down on the bridge, there were planted the sixteen pieces of field-artillery which are here termed 'the Causeway batteries,' J whilst eight other guns placed further eastward connected the defences here ranged with those of the Kourgane Hill. § The force in this part of the field formed the centre of the Uussian line of battle, and was practically under the orders of Prince Gortschakolf, || who also, however, com- manded the whole of the enemy's right wing. The right wing of the Russian army was the force destined to confront, first our Light Division, and then the Guards and the Highlanders. It was posted on the slopes of the Kourgane Hill. Here was the Great Eedoubt, armed with its
- Anilchkoff, Cliodasiewlcz, Todlrbcn.
+ Anitclikoff .speaks of tliis body as a whole battalion, but Grncral de Todleben calls it only a half battalion. X Prince GoitschakofT says that the Causeway j,Tins were eighteen in number. § The 2i giins above mentioned were furnished by the two 12-gun Light batteries, Nos. 1 and 2 of the ICth Artillery brigade. — Anitclikoff, Chodadcwicz, 'fudlchcn. II The Borodino corps formed part of General KiriakofTs command ; but the nature of the ground and the course which the action took prevented him from having it in his actual con- trol ; and Gortschakoffwas the General to whom the corps had to look for guidance.
