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482 THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP, they brought up was but small, they made their attempt to drive in our main picket by coming on in a throng. And, on the other hand, there is not, so far as I know, a single instnnce of any Russian column at Inkerman having become jammed or overlapped or otherwise embarrassed for want of space. Even when the Catherinburg battalions, having been ordered to act in support, became impatient, and pressed forward to the front, they found room to interpose themselves betwixt the foremost columns without jostling them or bring- ing about any sort of confusion. Far from want- ing space on Mount Inkerman, the Russians, after a few hours' fighting, complained of want of num- bers ; and it was simply from want of numbers that General Dannenberg at an early period, and whilst still holding Shell Hill, was forced to abandon the idea of attempting any further attack. Upon the whole, then, it seems very plain that, if the troops issuing from the Kai'abel Faubourg had delivered their attack on the western side of the Careenage Ravine, Pauloff's troops — left to act by themselves — must have failed on Mount Inkerman ; and that, consequently, the fate of the whole enterprise would have got to depend after all upon what Soimonoff himself with his own unaided soldiery might prove able to achieve against an Anglo -French army.* • After leaving Peunefather and the Guards to deal with PanloiT's attempt on Mount Inkennan, the English would liave had three Divisions with which to act against Soimonoff — viz. .