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BATTLE OF THE ALMA.
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CHAP. I.
commanders? and why did they throwback the chat gifts which seemed to he brought them by the fortune of battle?
When our storming-force under Codrington was ascending the glaicis in a crowd—in a crowd torn through and through by grape and canister—how came it that the enemy could suddenly make up his mind to stop the massacre and dismantle his Great Redoubt ?
"When the remnant of our storming-force was Hocking back down the hil], why did the enemy spare from destroying it, and bring to a halt his triumphant Vladimir column?
Having several thousands of troops between the Causeway and the Kourganè Hill, why did the Ptussian Generals suffer Lacy Yea still to keep his stand on open ground with one disordered battalion?
We saw that when jNIentscliikoff, disturbed by the report of Bosquet's flank movement, rode off in great haste towards the sea, Prince Gortschakoff was left in command of all that part of the Russian army which confronted the English. Kvetzinski, the brave and able general who commanded the Division on the Kourganè Hill, was under the orders of Prince Gortschakoff; and as long as the absence of the Commander-in-chief was protracted, Gortschakoff was the officer who had to answer for the defence of the Pass, and of the whole position thence extending to the extreme right of the Paissian army. Every part of the ground thus committed to Prince Gortscha-