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Let some one go back to the artillery park, and tell them I want a couple of eighteen pounders." An aide-de-camp at once galloped off with the order, but two or three eventful hours elapsed before these guns were brought to bear upon the action. Pennefather's men, although for the moment triumphant, had their hands full.
On the other hand, Pennefather's force was reduced to a little over 3,000, to which a couple of French regiments might now be added, 1,600 strong. The Russians had a hundred guns in position; the allies barely half that number. Yet in the struggle that was imminent the battle of Inkerman was practically to be decided.
The Russian general had now resolved to make a concentrated attack in column upon Pennefather's Ridge. He sent up another great mass from the quarry ravine, flanked and covered by crowds of skirmishers. In the centre, the vanguard pressed forward swiftly, drove back the slender garrison of the Barrier, and advanced unchecked towards the Ridge.
W. Pennefather's soup-kitchen in Bethnal Green, and slept in the room at that time rented above it. The two following days were occupied in vain endeavours to procure admittance into one of the existing Homes for girls, the third, in preparing clothing for her, while, at the same time, no way appeared open for her to be received anywhere.
But Pennefather's people stoutly held their own. On his left front, one wing of the 49th Regiment routed a whole Russian column, and drove it back at the point of the bayonet down the hill; to give way in turn, but not till it was threatened by 9,000 men. Next, four companies of the Connaught Rangers stoutly engaged twenty times their number, and only yielded after a stubborn fight.
She would laugh to another tune if he chose to hold his tongue on Mr. Pennefather's warning, and let Dan'l run his head into the trap. The Fowey Collector was a smart man, capable of using his information.
A portion of the Fourth Division had been put under his orders. General Cathcart, just before his death, had come to him with a battalion of the Rifle Brigade. "They can do anything," he had said. "Where are they wanted most?" "Everywhere!" had been old Pennefather's reply.
All they did was to obey orders, and of course they knew naught of Mr. Pennefather's warning. To be short, Dan'l Leggo, after waiting the best part of two days at St.
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