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86 TllK IJATTJ;!- OK INKKltMAN. CHAP. VI. The subsidiary directions framed by Soimonoff and Pauloff. ' Careenage Kaviiu;, at six o'clock in the niovn- ' ing.* '2. The {letacliment camped on the Old City ' Heights,-f- . . . under Lt.-General Pauloff, ' will, at six o'clock in the morning, restore Inker- ' man bridge, and push on vigorously to meet* ' and join the corps of Lt.-General Soimonoff. ' With this detachment will be General de Dan- ' nenberg, commander of the 4th Infantry Corps, ' who is to take the paramount conmiand of the ' two corps as soon as they shall have effected

  • their junction.^

' 5. All particular measures concerning the ' execution of the orders given remain under the ' responsibility of the commanders of the corps ' of troops above mentioned, who in the night ' between the 4th and the 5th of November will ' acquaint me with their dispositions. ' 6. At the commencement of the action the Com- ' mander-in-Chief will be near Inkerman Bridge.' Both Soimonoff and Pauloff rightly understood that the Prince by these words meant to order a conjoint attack of their two army-corps on Mount Inkerman ; § and the written directions to tlieir

  • The hour was afterwards altered to 5 a.m.

+ The heights in the original, and by the Russians generally, as we have before seen, were called ' les hauteurs d'lnkerman.' X Clauses 3 and 4 are the instructions addressed to General Gortschakotf, commanding the ti-oops which would operate in the valley of Balaclava, and General lIoller, connnandiTig the garrison, and will be found in the Appendix, Note VI. ; but for the orally modified instructions under which Gortschakoflf acted, see ante, ]). 29, and also the footnote. § This is shown by their two papers of subsidiaiy directions