19G THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. VIII. CHAP. VI. 2d Period. Tho Gap. Imprudence of reinforc- ing the Guards without also securing the Gap. Reinforce- ments nevertheless obtained. Between the right of our troops engaged near the Barrier, and the left of the Scots Fusiliers who stood fighting on the brow of the Kitspur, there was still that unpeopled slope which went by the name of the Gap. Unless troops could be found to man that hillside, there would always be imminent danger of a turning movement against the left rear of the Guards ; * and indeed, if the Gap were not closed, the fight sustained on the Kitspur must continue to be one of a vain and isolated kind, in which it could hardly be right to entangle any more troops. Few, however at this time, had freed them- selves from the mistake of imagining that the dismantled Sandbag Battery, and the ground where it stood, formed a part of the English position ; and besides, as was natural, the Duke of Cambridge could ill bear that a combat long
- This diagram will perliaiis lielp to show what was meant
by 'the Gap.' SANDBKG I B/kTTEBY
