72 COUNCIL OF ^VAU AT SEBASTOPOL. CHAP. IV. burg,* nothing more is dironicled as having been done or resolved on that night. 21st Sept. Council uf udiniralH and Laval captains. KorniloflTs l>rupo.s:il : IT. The next morning, Korniloff assembled a council of admirals and captains to determine what should be done in the straits to which tilings were brought by the loss of the battle. Prince Ment- schikoff himself M-as not of the number assembled, but there is ground for inferring that to some of those who were there he had imparted at least his opinion, if not his final resolve. -f- Korniloff" addressed the assembled admirals and captains. ' Our army,' he said, ' is falling back ' on Sebastopol, and therefore the enemy will ' easily occupy the heights on the south of the ' Belbec. He will extend his forces as far as 'Inkermanj and " Holland "§ (where the in-
- Major Greig, despatched to St Pctersbui'g that iiii,'ht by
Korniloff, in obedience to orders from the Prince given liini i^n the Katclia. + For much of the information on which I base my state- ments respecting Admiral Korniloff and the Russian navy, I am indebted to a most admirable collection of materials by Captain Gendre, on officer who was uj)on the Staff of Admiral Korniloff. I, in general, refer to the work by the description of ' Materianx pour servir.' It is in Prussian, but the great kindness of Admiral Likhatcheff, who was himself on Korniloff's Staff, and also of I^Ir jMii'hcl of the Admiralty, has overcome for me this obstacle. J That is, to the site of the ' Ptuins,' and the ground overhang- ing them. In Russian nomenclature the ' Inkerman heights ' do not mean the ground where the battle of Inkerman was fought. § The ground thus designated was between the Star Fort and the head of the roadstead.
