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sequent course,
CHAP. — within thirty yards of its Ditch* — established ' themselves upon ground which offered something like shelter to men lying down.t Their sub- To use the position thus gained by a handful of men as a stepping-stone for the seizure of the battery, Colonel Warre would of course be in need of additional troops ; and, none as yet hav- ing come up, he sent back Major Inglis to ask for reinforcements ; J but meanwhile held fast to the ground he had won, and thence, as before, went on firing into the battery. When afterwards Colonel Warre learnt that lie must not expect reinforcements, he reluctantly withdrew his small force from the vantage-ground it had won, and effected the retrograde movement in an orderly way with a loss of only three men.§ Lord West When apprised of his accession to the com- to the con. niand, Lord West was not cognisant of the ad- vance of the Rifles and the 57th men on the Artakoff Battery ; and nowhere discerning those raand.
- ' Within twenty or thirty yards.' Colonel Warre, ubi
ante. f Major, now General Inglis, who at Inkernian, when young Stanley fell, succeeded to the command of the regiment and brought it out of action. I now know with certainty that Gen- eral Inglis is the son of the Colonel Inglis who at Albuera ad- dressed to the regiment his immortal apostrophe. t Whether the application was addressed to General Bentinck (who commanded the 4th Division) or to Sir G. Brown, Colonel Warre doe3 not say. § From 'They came,' ante, p. 177, down to this point, my follows the Report of Colonel Warre to Gen- end Bentinck.
