310 THE BATTLE OF INKEIIMAN, CHAP. Iiikuriuau coherent bodies of infantry with a L_ strengtli of about 17,000. He retained all his 8d Period, g^^g i^tact, and, as before, had nearly 100 of them in battery. Besides what we called our ' spent forces,' but including the men set apart to guard their left strength of flank, the English had of troops held together in an organised state some 3300 foot with 36 guns, and to these there had been added rather more than 1600 French infantry. So, besides a little truant body of Zouaves, which was already ap- proaching, the Allies may be regarded as having organised bodies of foot arrayed at this time on Mount Inkerman with a strength of altogether 5000,* and, including Boussiniere's 12 pieces — for these were now close at hand — as many as 48 guns. General Dannenberg was not destined to re- ceive any further accession of troops ; and it proved nearly the same with the Allies. Lord Eaglan, one may say, had no more infantry left that he could fitly bring up to swell his strength on Mount Inkerman ; whilst General Canrobert, with abundance of troops and a real determination to use them, had still somehow failed to provide for the speedy support of his two battalions already taking part in the action; and upon the whole it resulted that (excepting the truant body of Zouaves) no fresh reinforcements of foot were as
- See ill the Appendix, Note IX. Of the 3300 English in-
fantry lOUU at thu least were still guarding the unassailed left, leaving only 2300 for the impending fight.
