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stopped the onward march of the Ouglitz battalions, and had chained 
up the high-metalled Vladimir in the midst of its triumphant advance.” 
No recognition of their services could be more complete than this. 
Vet such a performance as we have thus briefly described bears bn 
it rather the impress of individual prowess owing something to chance 
than of a deliberately planned and scientific application of means to an 
end, which from the first utilises to the full all the resources at com¬ 
mand and blends them together to reap a great result. So, likewise, 
in the subsequent battle of Inkerman, two guns again emerged from 
the ruck to gain particular glory, and artillery put out a small fraction 
of its strength as if as a sample of what, had the odds been but a little 
less one-sided, its efforts might have accomplished. 
On the 5tli November, 1854, the British infantry, struggling blindly 
