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162 THE BATTLE OF INKEKMAN. CHAP, no portion of the 19,000 infantry * now about to ' be wielded by Dannenberg had hitherto fired a M Period. gi^Qi- With the 10,000 fresh troops of Pauloff's army- corps, General Dannenberg undertook to engage the centre of the English, but also to attack them at the same time with great vigour on their right, and to begin by driving in the little body of soldiery still posted by the Sandbag Battery, f Advance of So, after gaining Shell Hill, the Okhotsk regiment Ilia 10,000 ' & o ' to fnvsh troops, and the Sapper battalion crossed the Quarry Kavine and the Inkerman Tusk, descended into St Clement's Gorge, and thence (by help of the Sappers, who cut through the dense and tall brushwood) made their difficult way up the Kit- spur at a point near its northern extremity. In this diagonal line of march, they were followed some way by the lakoutsk and the Selenghinsk battalions ; but the lakoutsk troops so shaped their course that they would ultimately come to the front in or near the Quarry Eavine and on the right of the Okhotsk regiment; whilst, on the other hand, the four Selenghinsk battalions prepared to form the left wing of the assailing forces. Before coming under fire, the troops were already in that order of attack which had been adopted by the Tomsk and three other regiments in the preceding fight.J • Taking the battalion of Sappers at 750, 19,748. t The attack on our right was, at this time, the primary object.— Todleben, p. 468. X I.e., skirmishers first, then two lines of company columns, then one line of battalion columns.— See ante, lat Period. Sec. I.