API'KNDIX. 517 NOTE X. Extract from General Pennefathbr's Report to thk Quartermaster - (General, dated the 6th OcTOBEit (meaning November) 1854. ' And now heavy columns of Russian Infantry pressed
- forward up the hill both to the left of our position and
' by the road leading to its crest ; and here, I assure you, ' we should have hardly held our ground but for the
- timely arrival of two battalions of French infantry at the
- very crisis of the battle, who,* forming in two lines, and
' joined on their left by a portion of the 57th Regiment, ' after a momentary halt, cheered and charged the enemy, ' forcing them down the hill with fire and steel with con- ' siderable slaughter, aided })y some of our guns in advance
- on our right, who plied the left flank of the Russiant
' with good effect.' NOTE XI. Authorities showing the time when the French In- fantry ceased to take part in the Battle. After describing the defeat of the Selinghinsk bat- talions, narrated ante, Fifth Period, sec. vi., the official Atlas de la Guerre d'Orient says, 'il est environ 11 ' heures ; ' and thenceforth it mentions nothing done by any French infantry until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. It says; 'Depuis I'arriv^e des frangais le It. -general Dan-
- In the part of the sentence which follows this word, the General refers
to what was only one battalion, though certainly a very strong one- i.e., to the 7th Leger, numbering 908 men.
