300 THE BATTLE OF II^KEliMAN. V II A P. VI. 2d Period. To bo met by iio,ir400 fresh troops under General Goldie. Combat fought by Colonel Horn and his wing of the 20th. goal, he was found to Le uioviug upon a coucave front, the central mass of his force being covered at each flank by a protruded claw.* But the part of the position thus threatened had been strengthened, as we have seen, by the accession of Brigadier - General Goldie, with a wing of the 20th Kegiment counting 180 men, under Colonel Horn, and the approach of the 57th, nearly 200 strong, under Captain Edward Stanley, "f" Lord Eaglan ordered an aide-de-camp Captain Somerset Calthorpe to bring forward the wing of the 20th, and take it at once up to Pennefatlier. This was speedily done. After moving up the Home Eidge by ground on the right of the Post- road, Colonel Horn, J with his men of the 20th, there came under fire, and he at once deployed into line, then began to advance down the slope. The state of the atmosphere had by this time in some measure changed, and was clear enough to
- It would be rash to speak confidently of the numbers
which the enemy engaged in this attack ; but considering that he acted, as usual, in heavy columns, and that he could afford to throw out a massive claw on each flank, there seems to be almost a necessity for believing that the whole force must have numbered fully 2000. The liikoutsk battalions had no doul)t suffered by this time heavy losses, but it will be re- membered that they went into action with a strength of 3223. Towards the close of this Second Period, however, one of the four liikoutsk battalions was engaged, as we have seen, in another part of the field. t Colonel Powell, who comiuanded the regiment, being on duty with a part of it in the trenches. The exact strength under Stanley was 196. t Now General Sir Frederic Horn, K.C. B.
