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184 THE BATTLE OF INKKRMAN. CHAP. VI. 2d Period. ThB hatteries newly brought up. Except as regards the brief and successful operation thus conducted with three pieces of cannon hj Captain Hamley, the commanders of all the three batteries which had been newly brought up found berths for their guns on Home Eidge, and there kept them in action alongside of the other artillery.* V. The The two battalions of the Guards which Arm- andThe"'" stroug had found at Hill Bend were the Grena- Fu°siiiersat diers, Commanded by Colonel Eeynardson, and Hiu Ben . ^^^^ g^^^^ Fusilicrs, under Colonel — now General — Walker. Together, they had there a strength of more than 700 men.f The Divisional General — H.E.H. the Duke of Cambridge — and General Bentinck, who commanded the brigade, were both of them present with this part of the force. The Grenadiers stood in front, supported, at some little distance, by the Scots Fusiliers, and both regiments were already in line. To these high -mettled soldiery the message delivered by Armstrong, amid the sounding tumult of battle, had given a kind of impulsion which could not be all at once deadened by the ceasing of the ]jarticular combat for which aid

  • General de Todlohen, vol. i. p. 474, attaches great import-

ance to the vigmir and boldness with which, he says, English guns were thrown forward ; and, unless he mistook French for English guns, it would seem that his impression must have been caused by witnessing this operation of Hamley's. + 757.