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40 THE BATTLE OF INKEKMAN. IV. CHAP. Confronting thus on Mount Inkerman the ^"' enemy's principal onslaught, Lord Eaglan also po^tiorof had on his right and right rear the extended unde? Qo't- array of Prince Gortschakoff ; whilst again on his ^rhakoffand ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ MoUer, there stood the whole mass of the Sebastupol forces, already obeying the orders which assigned them their part in the action. These forces, under Gortschakoff and MoUer, were together so great in numbers, and constituted so large a proportion of the enemy's whole line of battle, that without learning first what they did, one might fail to apprehend the true scope of the general engagement as distinguished from that famous part of it which raged upon one narrow The bearing hill. And the Same sweeping glance which shall efforts ui)on scau thesc auxiliary operations will pointedly on Mount help to clucidate the course of the fight on Mount Inkerman ; for, since neither the French nor the English had any force held in reserve, they could only bring succours to the endangered ground by fetching them from other parts of their line of battle, where the state of the action might be such as to warrant the withdrawal of troops ; and it was to deter them from resorting to that direly needful expedient that both Gortschakuft' and Mol- ler had already come into action. Each of those two commanders, we know, had been cliarged to detain the Allied troops before him by simulated or actual aggressions, thus doing his best to pre- iukerman.