CHAP. VI
7th period.
VI.
General Canrobert and Lord Raglan on the heights vacated by the enemy General Canrobert and Lord Eaglan rode up chap side by side to the East Jut, and thence surveyed Pauloff's forces retreating across the Inkerman marsh ; but it was in speaking to one of his own staft' that the English commander imparted the Singularly accurate surmise he then hazarded.[1] Conjoining what he saw on the marsh with his other impressions of the battle, he said, 'I have 'been attacked by 40,000 men.' He could hardly have been otherwise than conscious that the repression of these multitudinous assailants had been largely owing to the happy conception and the firm resolve by which he had found himself able to bring up the two 18-pounders; but he was always forgetful of self; and it happened that there rode up a man who had helped him —and helped him superbly—in giving effect to his orders. For once Lord Raglan gave utterance to a word which was scarce to be found in any of his great master's despatches. He said to Coliingwood Dickson, ' You have covered yourself 'with glory.'
The French and the English commanders dismounted. General Canrobert with his arm in a sling, and resting the further end of a field-glass on his horse's saddle, stood observing the march of the troops he had suffered to escape him, and already, perhaps, experiencing his first bitter pangs of regret for opportunities lost.
- ↑ To Wetherall, I think, or, at all events, in his hearing.
