466 THE BATTLE OF INKEKMAN. OH A P. sion without being swayed by occurrences in any ' other parts of the field. II. Losses re- FroiTi the general engagement of the 5th of suiting from .it , -i the general Noveuiber, including the fight on Mount luker- engageniciit. ° " man, there resulted, it seems, to the Paissians a loss of 11,959 in killed, wounded, and prisoners;* to the English a loss of 2573, of whom 635 were killed.f The loss of the French in killed, includ- ing 25 otiicers, reached only 175 ; but their re- turns of the wounded show 95 officers and 1530 men, thus bringing up their entire loss, as offi- cially stated, to exactly ISOO.j
- OfBcial return. This ^nves 3286 as the number of the
Russians killed. But see note ante, i. 451. On what certainly appears to have been very strong ground. Lord Raglan con- ceived that the losses of the Russians at Inkerinan must have been nearly 20,000. He writes : ' We have good reason to be- ' lieve that the Russians lost little short of 20,000 men on ' the 5th. They are known to have buriid of their own people ' 500. We have interred 3000; the French 1400; and as they ' must have had three times the number of wounded at the ' very least, 20,000 would not be an exaggerated estimate.' — Private letter to the Duke of Newcastle, I2th November, 1854. t Official return. X Ibid. The proportions in which these collected losses oc- cuiTcd at Mount Inkerman, and other parts of the general battle-field, will be found bj' recurring to statements made mtte in pp. 60, 451, 463, 464.
