THE MAIN FIGHT. 115 Thou<Th for some time thronged in confusion, chap. , VI and galled by the fire of Captain Barnstons ! picket, which stood posted higher up on the i*'^*'-**"^' Kitspur, the whole of these Taroutine troops — with, besides, that stray Catherinburg battalion which had wandered into their company — estab- lished themselves on the ground they had won with their front towards the south. Moreover, junction the four Borodino battalions having completed Borodino tiieir ascent, and contmued to push on their aci- Taroutine , . . . , battalions vance, now prolonged m a westward direction the Their array array of the Taroutine regiment, and extended across the Quarry Eavine at its uppermost part, with their right drawn up on the Post-road. XI. The 6000 men* thus united, with their right The enemy's ,-_ i--iif iip entire front on the Post-road, were divided irom the lorces of battle at advancing under Soimonoff by the breadth of the Saddle-top Reach, but so linked to them, never- theless, by the interposed batteries of Shell Hill, that the whole formed, together, a single array which extended in a loop from the Careenage liaviue on the west to the edge of Mount Inker- man on the east ; and it is right to observe the and that, if his valuable life had been spared a few hours longer, he might have averted the error of which we shall afterwards hear. His perspicuity seems the more remarkable, if one ha{)- pens to remember that during the preceding night, the relieved picket — a picket of the 95th— had maintained a much more considerable number of men in the work.
- The 5844 being swelled to 6668 by the accession of the
• stray Catherinburg battalion.'
