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APPENDIX. 417 ' lie had riddou idong the line to Lacy Yea's right wing, ' he would have seen that, notwithstanding the critical

  • state of its left comjDanies, the regiment (taken as a

' whole) was almost in the very moment of acliieving its ' final victory over the left Kazan column. If he had ' stooped to tlio use of a glass, and had condescended to ' recognise for a moment the existence of one of Evans's ' battalions, he would have seen the Kazan column slowly ' retiring, and would have been surprised to observe that, ' on ground Avhere he imagined there were none but his ' own Light Division regiments, Colonel "Warren with his ' ij.jth was not only well in advance, but had wheeled on

  • his left, and was pouring his fire into the flank of the

' enemy's column. Far from doing this, and far from in-

  • forming himself of the truth l)y subsequent inquiry, Sir
  • George Brown has remained for nearly nine years under

' the impression produced on his mind by a glance at the ' extreme left of the 7th ; and, because at this time he saw ' the 33d and the 7th close together, and in nearly the ' same line, he seems to have inferred that from first to ' last they had been acting together.' — Pamjihlet by an ' Old Reviewer,' published by Harrison, Pall iNlalh — Note to ith Edition. NOTE IV. PiRSPECTIXG THE StATEMEXT THAT MeX COMIXG DOWX FROM THE PeDOUBT BKOKE THROUOn THE ScOTS PuSILIER Guards. A REVIEWER impressed with the ideas of Sir George Brown said I was * wrong in having asserted that the Pusi- ' liers in their tumultuous advance encountered a heap of

  • our men running away from the redoubt. The fugitives

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