92 KVASIOX OF MKNTSCIIIKUFF AND HIS CHAP. There is some ubscuiity in rci^urd to the iii- "^^ structions with which General Kiriakolf was fur- nished;* but at half-past four in tiie afternoon his troops were so near to the Belbec as to bo able to see the English cavalry on the other side of the river ; and in the evening he learnt that Lord Lucan's force had occupied the village of Duvankoi. Thereupon, and the same night, Kiriakeiff fell back ujjon the Inkerman bridge, crossed the river, ascended the Sapoune Heights, moved southward along the road on their crest, descended once more into the valley of Tchernaya, recrossed the stream by a ford, ascended the Mackenzie Heights, and was thenceforth on the same line of march as the rest of the evading army. One of his battalions, however, in consecj^uence of some mistake, fell out and returned to Sebastopol."f* The army In the night of the 24th the main army moved iiiaicliiug '^ , , , ,, n ii out of out ot bebastopol, crossed the valley oi tlui Sebastopol: ^ ^ . i x. -i i • r. Tchernaya, and retreated towards J>aktclii berai by the line of the IMackenzie lleights.:|: After first providing for the way in which the command of the forces left at Sebastopol should be distributed during his absence. Prince Ment- rrince scliikoff iu pcrsou departed from the place ; and kon'lmd'his at eight o'clock in the morning of the 25th he «nnyou il' ^.gj^^j^^.j Otarkoi, a village on the Belbec, lying-
- See Todlelx'ii, vol. i. p. 242 et seq., coinparinc,' the note and
the text. i-The 3il Taroutine liattalion.
- See the I'hui facing p. IG ante, ami also the one facin^;»
p. 340 of v,j1. iii., Cabinet Edition of the 'Invasion of the ' Crimea.'
