“The” Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan, Volume 6

W. Blackwood and Sons, 1894 - Crimean War, 1853-1856

THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN	1

The band of English directly confronted and attacked by	2

The enemys plan	5

The primary task of these troops	7

Strength and disposition of the collected troops remaining	9

The Guards	10

The Grenadiers and the Scots Fusilier Guards not detained	11

Soimonoffs march	14

The great bulk of Cathcarts troops distributed piecemeal	226

The state of Cathcarts temper in the Crimea	232

Question as to the cause which induced him to disobey orders	233

His resistance at the parapet	239

Real extent of the advantage possessed by the Allies in point	241

Downward rush of the troops on each flank of the Battery	245

The newly approaching battalions seen by Percy	250

Cathcart surprised by a fire from the heights behind him	256

VII	16

III	20

The approaching reinforcements	23

The numerical strength of the contending armies 23 2225	25

Measures tending to inflame the zeal of the Russian soldiery	31

CHAPTER V	34

The first intelligence of the attack	37

Timovieffs sortie	52

Advantages resulting from General Codringtons firmness	61

Shell Hill	67

Covered towards its left front by the Mikriakoff Spur	69

Northern half of Mount Inkerman left in enemys power	76

IV	82

Captain Goodlakes interposition	85

The first measures taken on the Home Ridge	96

The positions taken up by Pennefathers regiments	102

Commencement of Soimonoffs attack	111

Advance of the Taroutine battalions to the front of the Sandbag	113

The four companies of the Connaught Rangers	119

XIV	125

Continued pursuit of Grant	126

Resolute advance further east of six Russian battalions	142

XVIII	143

The defeated body of 6600 finally removed from the field	150

Want of ammunition	154

SECOND PERIOD	160

And of Canrobert	166

The enemys entire change of his fighting battalions not per	174

The Gap	176

IV	182

Continued retreat of the Okhotsk columns	183

The Grenadiers and the Scots Fusiliers at Hill Bend	184

Charge of the Grenadiers	188

The Sandbag Battery vacated	194

Continued advance of the Iäkoutsk column	195

VIII	196

Peril resulting from the defeat of the French battalion	198

The results of his expedition in search of reinforcements	203

The Russians overthrown on each front by the Guards	212

Attack on the north front and the left shoulder of the Sand	219

Men descending the hillside in chase	225

Death of Cathcart	262

Continued advance of the French 6th of the Line	267

Magnitude of the results that might have followed a Russian	279

Their results	285

Humes wing of the 95th thrown forward towards the Barrier	291

XVIII	298

Mauleverers wing of the 30th Regiment	300

Result of this Russian attack against the right of Home Ridge	305

Strength of the Allies	310

Victorious advance of the French and English	312

III	316

The 57th	322

Its advance on Egertons right rear	323

Accession of a truant captain of Zouaves with 60 men	335

The combat	342

Its effect upon the issue of the combat	349

Post established by Haines within the Quarry Ravine	351

VII	357

Ground yielded by the English on the line of the Postroad	364

The hay picket brought	370

Ascendant obtained by the two eighteenpounders	378

Conditions under which Dannenberg would now have to act	381

Bosquets disposition of the 450 Chasseurs	389

His array when there	394

Its retreat	401

Reappearance of some Coldstream men under Townshend	407

I	411

The import of this resolve	417

IV	424

Ambition of Haines in the direction of his left front	429

oclock P M Dannenbergs orders to begin the retreat	436

III	441

Circumstance favouring the task	444

By the English	452

Inaction of Prince Gortschakoff with his 22000 fresh troops	464

III	472

The Allied Forces which sooner or later were	500

The Arrangements under which the Pickets	502

Table showing the Numbers of the 2d Division	513

The Authors Authority for the Numbers which	525

Title	“The” Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan, Volume 6 Cabinet edition “The” Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan, Alexander William Kinglake
Author	Alexander William Kinglake
Publisher	W. Blackwood and Sons, 1894
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	6 Dec 2018

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