THK 17TII OF OCTOBEll. 359 Telegraph Battery; and although these two ships chap. at first had not beeu placed under Lyons, yet, as "^^^^^ they acted in proximity to the ships which lie comniaiided, and indeed were sent oft" from the main division before it got into action, they came to be included -with the Agamemnon, the Sans- l)areil, and the London, as a part of the force which we have called the in-shore squadron.* Li the nature of the lot which was assigned to itsadvan. the main division, and of that which fell to the tiiemaiu share of the detached or in-shore squadron, there was this all-governing difference: The main division had a place assigned to it beforehand by the force of the lever which subjected our Admiral to the direction of the French; whilst, so far as concerns the sliips in the in-shore squadron, Dundas was left free to place them in those positions which he judged to be the best for the purposes of attack. At half-past twelve, the Agamemnon, the Sans- Advance of pareil, and the London, moved slowly on towards squadro^'* the south ; but if Lyons and Dacres and Eden were now at last standing in for the long-studied forts of Sebastopol, they needed some patience, or else some half-mutinous resolve, to sustain them imder the weight of the distressing instructions which Dundas, on the eve of the action, had
- Albion, 90 guns; ArL-tlmsa, 50. In the authentic record
of the fleet called the Admiral's 'Journal,' these ships are ti-eated as being formally as well as substantially under the orders of Lyons ; but, since it happened that they moved at first with the bulk of the tleet, and had their towing steamers on the port side, it was very generally believed that they foiiaed jjart of the luaiu division.
