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ON gortschakoff's front. 45 andefended, or withhold an important portion of chap. the Guards from the evidently arduous fight then ^^' heard raging more and more on Mount Inkerman. Considering all things, he discarded the latter alternative as even worse than the other one. So after giving his orders accordingly, and in par- ticular, directing Cadogan to stop the new pickets then marching to their assigned posts, and at once send them off to Mount Inkerman, he hast- ened thither in person, as did also Cadogan him self after executing the orders he had received. Thus all three of the battalions of Guards, includ- The coid- ing before long the Coldstream, were uprooted despatched from the ground they had watched, and trans- inkeman. ferred to the real seat of danger. Against the French troops further south, Prince Bosquet's Gortschakoff's feint was more pointed, and not at detained first wholly vain ; but the firing had scarce lasted byOnrt-^ an hour when Bosquet, divining by that time that menaces. the real attack was on Mount Inkerman, ordered two battalions and a half and two troops of horse- artillery to march towards the Windmill, and at once hastened thither in person. Near the Windmill, however, an unfortunate rencounter took place. Bosquet there met Sir George Brown and Sir George Cathcart, and hastened to proffer his aid, informing the two Generals that he was already followed by some infantry and artillery ; and that if the operation then commenced on Mount Inkerman should prove to be the real attack, he could with- draw other troops from the positions they then