CHAP. VI.
1st Period
this defeated by a picket of the Guards.
Prince Edward of Saxe-Wellnar, who was on
picket duty with his company of the Grenadier
Guards at Quarter-guard Point, could scarcely
have hoped that his watch (which was in the by a picket
nature of a 'quarter-guard' thrown out from Bentinck's camp, and quite unconnected with the
general system of the English outposts) would all
at once prove to be in the front of battle ; but
with the hitherto unresisted approach of the
Under-road Column thus turning the Hank of the
2d Division, he saw his opportunity coming.
After first drawing back the men to ground which
seemed apt for his design, he caused them there
to lie down in skirmishing order, and open fire
upon the flank of the elongated column then
already moving up by the Well-way, and striking
into the flank and left rear of Pennefather's camp.
The troops thus smitten fell back. Prince Edward pressed their retreat, took from them some
prisoners, moved down after them to the verge of
the crag which was the extreme limit of his watch,
and thence pursued them with fire.
The second body of Russian troops at this time thrown forward was, it seems, a battalion of the Catherinburg regiment, which undertook to cross the Mikriakoff Glen, and advance towards the point of the Spur on its southern side.[1]
- ↑ The strength of the four battalions which composed the Oatherinburg regiment was 3298, and accordingly the strength
deliberate orders given for the purpose — the body was composed of soldiers who had separated themselves from the columns on the high ground, and descended thence into the bed of the Careenage Ravine at a part near its upper extremity.