THE MAIN FIGHT, 451 and ability — was not a man likely to fail in any chap. practicable mission ; * and he not only brought ' back a large body of sailors as demanded by Tod- -,^h°plrl,i. leben, but, with them, two battalions of sappers. The superadded resources thus brought up to aid the artillerymen were applied with great zeal and great skill to the object of unlocking and moving this heavy agglomerate of ordnance-carriages, and gradually dragging them in ; but the evening had s o'clock, reached eight o'clock before the last piece of retreat ac- '-' _ _ comi)lished cannon passed back within the lines of defence. So ended the fight on Mount Inkerman, From the strife thus maintained in one part of Losses sus- the battle-field only there resulted, it seems, to thef.ght the enemy a loss of 10,729 f in killed, wounded, inkerman ; and prisoners. Amongst his killed or wounded bytiie ^ " . Russians: there were six generals ; and, if Kussian grades were like ours, the numbers might be stated at twelve ; for, besides Soimonoff and Villebois, and Ochterlone, and the rest of the six stricken chiefs having actual rank as generals, there were slain or wounded six other officers, who each of them held a command extending over thousands of
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highly distinguished for the bravery and zeal he afterwards displayed in the defence of the ' ouvrages blancs. ' t Official Return. — This gives 2988 as the number of the killed ; but I do not introduce that figure into the text, be cause it was evidently impossible for the Russians, when ex- cluded from the field of battle, to know with any certainty how many of their ' missing ' had been killed, and see Lord Raglan's estimate, post in note to last page of chap. vii.
