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THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN.

Careenage Kaviiu;, at six o'clock in the morning.[1]

'2. The detacliment camped on the Old City Heights,[2] . . . under Lt.-General Pauloff, will, at six o'clock in the morning, restore Inkerman bridge, and push on vigorously to meet and join the corps of Lt.-General Soimonoff. With this detachment will be General de Dannenberg, commander of the 4th Infantry Corps, who is to take the paramount conmiand of the two corps as soon as they shall have effected their junction.[3]

'5. All particular measures concerning the execution of the orders given remain under the responsibility of the commanders of the corps of troops above mentioned, who in the night between the 4th and the 5th of November will acquaint me with their dispositions.

'6. At the commencement of the action the Commander-in-Chief will be near Inkerman Bridge.'

The subsidiary directions framed by Soimonoff and Pauloff. Both Soimonoff and Pauloff rightly understood that the Prince by these words meant to order a conjoint attack of their two army-corps on Mount Inkerman;[4] and the written directions to their

  1. ↑ The hour was afterwards altered to 5 a.m.
  2. ↑ The heights in the original, and by the Russians generally, as we have before seen, were called 'les hauteurs d'lnkerman.'
  3. ↑ Clauses 3 and 4 are the instructions addressed to General Gortschakotf, commanding the ti-oops which would operate in the valley of Balaclava, and General Holler, commanding the garrison, and will be found in the Appendix, Note VI.; but for the orally modified instructions under which Gortschakoflf acted, see ante, ]). 29, and also the footnote.
  4. ↑ This is shown by their two papers of subsidiary directions
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