40 BATTLE OF THE ALMA. CHAP, regiment (the 7tli, the Royal Fusiliers) overlapped ^' by the left — nay, even by the centre — of Penne- fatlicr's brigade.* The fault was not retrieved, and we sliall see it embarrassing the dispositions that had to be made for advancing in order of battle. The artillery attached to our two leading divisions was now also drawn up in line, and Sir George Brown reckoned that he alone showed a front extending to nearly a mile. At the same time, the Duke of Cambridge, at Sir George Brown's request, altered the forma- tion of his Division by distributing it into a line of contiguous quarter-distance columns. The march These cliangcs having been completed, the English army resumed its march ; and the lead- ing divisions coming more closely within range, and being a little galled by the enemy's fire, Sir George Brown halted, and tried the experiment of wheeling into open column. Afterwards, how- ever, he returned to the line-formation, and in that order continued his advance. i* VIII. So now the whole Allied armies, hiding nothing
- When the deiiloyinent took place, the 7th, the Eoyal
Fusiliers, were in rear of the 95th Regiment ; and they after- wards, as will he seen, marched through it. t My knowledge respecting the movements and evolutions of our infantiy divisions is derived mainly from original ]ISS. in my possession, written by Sir George Bi-own, the Duke o/ Cambridge, Sir De Lacy Evans, and Sir George Cathcart continued.
