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PLAN OF THE FLANK .MARCH. 403 the Star Fort was in one sense a mere continuance chap. of St Arnaud's former refusal to marcJi on and ^• attack the woik, still it took place under different Tiieavoid-

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conditions, and in circumstances which crave it sur Fort ' *-' was the the character of a distinct resolve. Thus re- fccomiof the lost garded, it has to be ranged as the second of the ' wcasiona.' ' lost occasions ' which followed the battle of the Alma.