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- and make a wheel to the left. . . . With this acces-
- sion to Colonel Yea's force, the Russians in a short time
' disappeared, leaving many on the ground.' A writer, who seems to have enquired a good deal about what was passing at the time when Sir George Brown im- agined that the 7th Fusiliers ' would not attend to him,' lias undertaken the somewhat intricate task of showing how Sir George Brown fell into hi.s error. He thus writes : — ' But we are not only able to free the 7ili Fusiliers from ' the effects of Sir George Brown's wondrous narrative.
- "We can do more : we can explain to Sir George Brown
' how it was that — honestly, quite honestly — he fell into ' his error, ^fr Kinglake states that, when the 7th Fusi- ' lici^ had defeated the left Kazan column, it was not ' thought wise for the victors to advance in pursuit them- ' selves, but to leave that duty to the Grenadier Guards.
- The 7th Fusiliers, therefore, at the moment of its victory,
- remained halted. iIr Kinglake also represents that the
' defeat of this left Kazan column took place "nearly at ' " the very time when disaster befel the centre of the bri-
- " gade of Guards." — (Page 410, third edition.) Attention
- to this, reinforced by information from officers present,
- soon discloses the cause of Sir George Brown's mistake.
' In their retreat, some of the Fusilier Guards passed ' through the left companies of the 7th, and these com- ' panics becoming entangled with the defeated soldiery, ' and having on their left front a fresh, a lieavy, and a ' victorious column of the enemy's infantry (the Vladimirs),
- were far from being in a state for any aggressive move-
- ment, and Avere in great need of the support which they
' got when the Grenadiers passed through them. It was ' from what he saw there — from what he saw at the ex-
- treme left of the regiment — that Sir George Brown formed
- the notion which he has imparted to the ' Quarterly.' If
