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THE BATTLE OF BALACLAVA 59 fire of the artillery, and by two companies of rifle- chap. men pushed forward in skirmishing order, he advanced rapidly with three battalions of the ^ r obert ' 8 Azoff regiment, disposed in columns of company, and so ranged in two lines of columns as that the first line was only about 100 paces in advance of the second. In a third line, General Semiakine brought up the 1st battalion of the Azoff regi- ment and the 4th of the Dnieper battalions, each formed in a ' column of attack.' Advancing in The work this order, he approached to within about 100 paces of the hill-top, and at once gave the signal for the assault. Then the two foremost lines of columns, led by Colonel Krudener, the commander of the Azoff regiment, and supported by the two One and No. Two, which were defended by about 1000 or 1200 Turks with five guns. stormed. 3^^l R O B E RT'SVt^ z2P0k H I L L ,v X^, KAMARA