154 TIIK BATTLE OF INKEKMAN. CHAP, forces had been sacrificed for want of sufficient VT. numbers.* 1st Period. j^ ^^^g ^^^ about lialf-past seven o'clock. XXII. Comparison We saw that, to meet the 25,000 infantry and upon a 38 pieces of cannon already brought up to Mount which would Inkerman, our people had only been able to gather aprroaching some 3600 foot with — at first 12 and afterwards — 18 guns ; but it may be said that the Duke of Cambridge and Sir George Cathcart were ad- vancing to the support of Pennefather with reinforcements which would sooner or later com- prise some 3500 additional infantry,-f- that the batteries on Home Eidge would ere loug be receiv- ing an accession of 18 field -pieces, followed soon by two heavier guns, and that the forces thus pre- paring to act, though not yet on the scene of the actual fight, should be counted as supports
- ' In .spite of the accumulated forces of the enemy our
' columns succeeded in occupying his batteries and fortifica- ' tions, and maintained themselves in that position hoping to ' get new supjiorts, but except the three regiments of our divi- ' sion [those tliree regiments alone had come into action with a ' strength of 9297] no others appeared. That bewildered us to ' the last degree. Having no possibility of maintaining our ' position any longer, we retreated.' — Kronsikoff, ubi ante. The recent date of the statement and of its publication tends to prove that the false impression of the writer must have been one generally entertained in the Russian army, for otherwise, apparently after so many years, it could hardly have remained uncorrected. t 3461— I.e.. the Guards, less Prince Edward's company (already counted), and the 4th Division.
