2y0 BATTLE OF THE ALMA. CHAP, says Kiriakoff, * did not follow us. I am ignorant ! ' of the reason why. Maybe they did not want on ule%ht ' to stand between the fire of their ships and our Tdegiajlif: ' regiments ; maybe the sight of the two bodies of ' Hussars, headed by Colonel AVailinovich, may ' have checked them.* In fact, I cannot explain ' their conduct.' By pursuing his easterly march for some time, Kiriakoff brought his column out of the artillery-fire which had been tearing it, and he came at last to a halt upon a spot on the right the part rear of the Telegraph. Although it was the des- it had taken i> ^ • ■, pi -tiit j^ in the battle, tiuy 01 tlus ' columu 01 the eight battalions to be able to put a great stress upon the French army, and afterwards to be cruelly shattered by cannon, yet, from first to last, the body which thus did and thus suffered was without an oc- casion for firing a shot. XXXVIII. A flanking Moved froui wcst to cast along the top of the the French platcau, the Trcnch guns, which had dealt with poured upon the columu, wcrc uow oucc morc in battery, and on the upon Giround from which they threw a flanking Telpgrai'h i o -J _ ■=" Hoigtit fire in the direction of the troops which still remained on the slopes in front of the Telegraph Height. The only infantry forces which had been placed in that part of the field were the four
- The translation I liave used says 'annoyed them,' but I
gather from the context that the word I have ventured to sub- stitute more acc-arately represents the General's meaning.
