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346 INDEX. more men of the Guards now out on the Ledge-way, ib. — the fighting I personal combats, 241 — downward rush of the troops on each !!:,; of the battery, 245 state of the b'oops within the work, 246 — out- burst of troops from the battery, a d pursuit of the Rus- iu front of (lie battery, ib. — column in .St Clement's Gorge con- d by troops of the 95th Regi- ment, ib. Captain Sargent with toe dier company, 248- -charge by ith, ib. — its effect, ib. — true ex- tent of the overthrow sustained by the Russians, 249 — a false victory, ib. — westward direction taken by a few, 250 — course taken by the bulk, ib. — the high ground almost de- nuded, ib. The newly approaching battalions seen by Percy, 250— his measures, ib. — movement effected by the bulk of the soldiery who had fought on the Kitspur, 251 — Percy's return from the tight, 253 — supplies of ammunition, 254 — reorganisation of the dispersed soldiery, ib.— state of tin' troops coming in by the Teher- naya flank, 255— the 200 still on high ground, ib. — Cathcart surprised by a fire from the heights behind him, 256 - — the. interposed Iakoutsk battalion, ib. — Cathcart, 257 — his resolve and scant means, ib.— the attack made by fifty men of the 20th, 258 result of the attack, 260— Cathcart's words to Maitland, 261— Maitlan I's further efforts, ib. — death of Cathcart, lymour killed and Maitland wounded, ib. — the remains of the fifty assailants, ib. Position Hi [akoutsk battalion on the Fore Ridge, 263— troops on the Duke of Cambridge's left front as well as in his rear, ib. Bnrnaby's measures, 264 — critical position of the Duke of Cambridge and the colours of the Grenadier Guards, ib. — the intei dii cov red, 2i . in consei 26 i— nio takoul ik bal - n, ib - .-mil df the men with the colours of the > Iren idier I iuards, ib. t lie Duke of Cambi idge an I ome oopa irapin | bhe Lnter- po ed force, 207 — the band of English dii tl; onfronted and attacked by the Russians, ib. — Dr Wolseley's tii" double peril to h i lie col mi s are now exposed, 271 — Burnaby and his men inter- pose I md the pursuing force, ib. —

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opportune advance of the French 6th of the Line, 277— retreat of the battalions, 278 — extrica- tion of Burnaby and the other sur- vivors of his liitle rear-guard, ib. — of B na ■ 's rear- guard operations in covering the re- lic it of 1 he iplete extrication of the 150 English who had been surrounded by the enemy, 2S0— anxiety suffered by the Duke of Cambridge, io.— his joy upon wit- n ing the return of the men with ours, 281 —continued retreat of the enemy's columns, 2S2 — Russians in the gorge of the Sandbag Battery, ib.— hesitation of the French 6th of the Line, ib. — Captain Armstrong's exerl ons, ib. recapture of the Sand- bag Battery, 2S3— continued advance of the French i th of the Line, ib.— • li.i wren I leiieral Bourbaki and Colonel Horsford, ib.— retrospect of the fights on the Kitspur, 284— their results, 2S5. The centre, 286 — Pennefather's method of defending it, 287— Maul- r's wing of the 30th Kegiment, ib. — its protracted resistance to the i , s advancing columns, ib. — the 30th men at length pressed back to the crest-work. 289 — continued ad- vance of the liikoutsk column, 200— till attacked and defeated by a wing of Borsford's Hiile battalion, ib. — Hume's wing of the 95th thrown for- ward towards the Barrier, 201 — Rus- sian column torn and driven back by some of Turner's guns, 292— a llus- sian column on the crest of the Home Ridge, ib. — but it is charged and driven back by the men of the 30th, ib. — scantiness of the English forces in front of their centre, ib.— the mist, ib. — General Pennefather, 293 — the Gap left open, 200— and not closed by Colonel Upton's manoeuvre, ib. — illusion created by the stubbornness Of the fight at the Barrier, 297— the enemy assail Pennefather on the left, e inderSwynyand Ainslie, the enemy's undertaking to attack the Some Ridge, ib. — to be nn 1 by 400 fresh troops under Gen- eral Goldie, 300— combat fought by 1 Horn and his wing of the , '5.— combat sustained by Cap- Stanley at the head of the 57th, 304 — result of this Russian attack against the Home b'idge, 305 -the result of conflicts which took place during the S scond Period, 306. Thi ■ i Period --s.no a.m. to 0.15 a.m.— strength of the Russians on Mount liikenuan at this time, :::>:'— strength of the Allies, 310— plan of i he Russians, 311- their dispositions