518 APPENDIX. ' nenberg s'est decidd de battre en retraite.' [This was not the case.] ' A partir de onze heures, ses troupes n'ont ' fait aucun mouvement ojffensif. Le combat a continue ' de loin a coups de fusil et k coups de canon.' Fay, A.D.C. to Bosquet, and a very good aixthority upon matters of fact coming under his observation, says : * D^s ' 11 heures la bataille ^tait ^videmment gagn^e, car Vennemi
- sans paraitre se retirer encore, avait cesse tout mouvement
' offensif.' In the statement of fact, which I have distinguished by italics, Fay is perfectly accurate, being wrong only in going on to infer that therefore the battle was gained. Both the Russians and the French* abandoned the offensive at 11 o'clock ; but the English continued the battle against an enemy who stood firm on the defensive for two hours more, i.e., until about 1 o'clock. Upon this point the Russian authorities are in perfect accord with our people. NOTE XII. ' Biting the dust ' in death. It would seem that this muscular action is apt to occur when a man has been arrested by death in the act of strenuous bodily exertion ; and no doubt an artilleryman whilst hotly engaged, and vehemently serving his gun, must in general be much harder at work than an infantry soldier busied with his firelock. In ancient times a large
- The Russians continued tlieir attacks on the Barrier long after 11
o'clock ; but those attacks, as shown iu the text, had a defensive pur- pose, and are not therefore inconsistent with the statement that the enemy abandoned the offensive at 11 o'clock.
