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ON THE SEBASTOPOL FRONT. 51 CHAPTER V. OPERATIONS ON THE SEBASTOPOL FRONT. 1. Except by the powerful sortie under TiinoviefF chap. which will be presently narrated, the garrison forces did little to detain the Allied troops before rison forces them ; and if now we pass over from our right to ^^^^^ ^'^^ Forey's siege - corps on our left, we shall find nothing of moment there liappening, until Prince Napoleon, in obedience to an order from General Canrobert, sent three of his battalions, under Canrobert's General Monet, towards the scene of the conflict todraw reinforce- on Mount Inkerman. General Canrobert, it mentsfor , I'lni Inkerman seems, had not been slow to assure himseli that from his siege-corpa. Mount Inkerman was to be the scene of the real attack, and had despatched the orders so early as eight o'clock in the morning ; but some unex- plained delays took place, and at half-past nine o'clock General Monet, with his three battalions, had traversed only a small proportion of the six miles which divided him from the main fight. Prince Napoleon himself was in camp, but had been ordered to hold himself in readiness to move