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350 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP, be imagined by all, and by soldiers will be even ' inferred. No soldiery whilst closely engaged 3d Period. .^iQj^g their whole front could well help being palsied upon hearing the roar of fresh tumult burst out in their rear, and presently coming to learn that the battalion which had there been supporting them at quarter distance was itself now engaged with some new enemy tearing in through its ranks ; and accordingly, when Colonel Daubeney emerged on the east of the colunm, he had not only worsted the body which directly received his attack, but had frozen the rush of the torrent let loose on the broken French sol- diery, and was now so coercing the foremost Rus- sian battalion that some, if not all, of its troops already began to fall back. Cheer from What was happeniuo' thus in the rear of the Pennefather taken up by forcmost Russiau battalion could neither be seen by the men of the 7th L6ger, nor by the English staff officers near them ; but perhaps General Pennefather, although not knowing the cause, still was able to discern signs of weakness in the ranks directly confronting him. What we know is that he now seized his moment. To the cries, the commands, the entreaties of the French officers, to the swelling appeal of the clarions, to the trebled roll of the drums, there acceded a joyous ' hurrah ! ' begun by General Pennefather himself, and the horsemen around him, taken up by our troops on his left, taken up by the men near I'ellairs, and carried along the thread of the English soldiery to where, on the right uudei his people