224 TIIK 15ATTLE OF INKERMAN. CHAP. The last of the onslaughts which the enemy • here undertook was directed by one of the Selin- idPeHod. giiinsk battalions against a part of our line on tiie enemy's the right of the Saudbag Battery, and with such attacks on ... the Kitspur. resolutioii that the column persisted in its ad- vance until within a few paces of the crest ; but Its defeat Captain Townshend Wilson of the Coldstream, i/en°o7the with part of his company and a few other men, then attacked and overthrew the whole mass, and sent it in hurried flight down the steeps. A few of the victors, excited by combat, and no longer restraining their eagerness, rushed down the hill- Men de- side in full chase; and although the pursuers were hillside in themselves pursued by their captain, who did all chase. he could to recall them, he was baffled in every effort to make himself heard through the din, and soon, both he and his people were all the way down in the valley of the Tchernaya, and even incurring fire from the skirmishers of Prince Gortschakoff s corps.* This outbreak of a few Coldstream men in un- bridled pursuit marks the beginning of an entire change in the tenor of the fight. But another mind now intervenes. XI. Sir George When Sir Gcorge Cathcart reached Mount In- arHvaf.'^^ kermau, he had close beside him his favourite
- The corps which our people in general (notwithstanding:;
Gortsohakoff's accession to its command) continued tc call ' Liprandi's.'
