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THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA. .'54.". division to the ground near the Redoubt 'Number chap ' Four,' now caused the work to be manned once ______ more by the Turks; and his riflemen took part in a fusilade which appeared to have the effect of silencing two Russian guns. At about four o'clock the firing came to an end ; but all grave contention had ceased from the moment when the Allied Commanders deter- mined to acquiesce in Liprandi's conquest. He held without further challenge all three of the captured redoubts; and retained to a point so far westward his dominion on the Causeway Heights as to be able to forbid free communication be- tween Balaclava and the main Allied camps by the line of the Woronzoff road. With the condition of things now shown, both cioaeoi the Allies and the Russians were so far content that they allowed the battle to end. XII. If the scope of this conflict were to be measured The kind ot by numbering the forces engaged, and the men winch Ian killed, wounded, or taken, a much slighter record tothebatui than the one I have framed would be fully enough for the purpose ; but from its effect in cramping the English at Balaclava, and exalting the spirit of Sebastopol, this first effort of Prince Mentschikoff's resurgent field-army exerted much power over the subsequent course of events ; and, on the other hand, the battle comprised several fights which so happily elicited the quality of