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192 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP, coated soldiery — a mass loosened out from the ^^' efiect of its march through dense brushwood, but 2d Period. gtiU plainly held together as an organised body. First charge When he judged that the moment was ripe, Fu3iuere.° ^ Colonel Walker caused his Scots Fusiliers to de- hver a volley and charge. The Russian throng, stricken by tire, and not awaiting the bayonet, rolled back in some haste down the steeps, and the colonel was leading forward his men to press its retreat when an aide-de-camp reached him with orders to stay the pursuit. Change of front effected by the Grenadiers. Position of the two battalions of the Guards now formed up togetlier. VII. The Duke of Cambridge had learnt by this time that he must fight with a front to the north as well as with one to the east; and he strove hard in person to effect the requisite change in the line of the Grenadiers ; but the battalion at the moment was eagerly engaged, and the din, the roar, the tumult, intercepted words of command. His Royal Highness, intent on his task, persist- ently rode with his aide-de-camp, Major James Macdonald, along the front of the battalion, ex- posed to the fire of his own people scarce less than to that of the enemy ; and, his visible pre- sence and gestures much aiding the efforts of voice, he succeeded in ejecting the change ; so that when the Scots Fusiliers, after having been recalled from their pursuit, were at length drawn up in their place on the left of the Grenadiers, the two battalions together formed a line strongly