THE MAIN FIGHT. 415 close beside liim readjusting the bandage of his chap. wounded arm. Lord liaglan asked Pcuuefather [ what he would propose to do. Pennefather 6«/'ferio,i answered to the effect that he was for pressing upon the liussians, who already, he thought, showed signs of yielding. Then Lord Ptaglan said — ' What have you left ? ' There was nothing, perhaps, that Lord Kaglan less expected or wished than an arithmetical answer to his question, but it happened that Pennefather only a few minutes before had been furnished with a report which proved that one portion, at least, of the infantry remaining to him was stronger in numbers than he had ventured to believe, and armed with the knowledge thus fjained, he stated that his 1st brigade alone still numbered 750 men present under arms.* However ioyouslv uttered, this announcement canrobert's
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of hundreds to set against the enemy's thousands inaction:
- This report had been made to him by Colonel Daubeney of
the 55th. When Colonel Warren's wound forced him to quit the field, Daubeney, as next senior officer, succeeded to the command of the 1st brigade of the 2d Division, and he there- upon took measures for ascertaining the then actual strength of the three battalions which had thus come under his command. Going up for this purpose to the 95th, he found it on the Home Ridge under the command of Captain Sargent (for Vialls as well as Champion and Hume had by that time been wounded), and from Sargent as its commander obtained the numbers he sought. If any one connects these facts with those mentioned ante, pp. 408, 409, he will see that the Zouave battalion under Dubos must have gained its victory over the Selinghinsk troops, and that Sargent and the 95th must have had time to come all the way back from St Clement's Gorge, before Pennefather's interview with Lord Raglan and Canrobert took place.
