The losses during the day of the two Russian columns, that took part in the first attack, before 7.30, amounted to some 5000 men; and this fact seems to show conclusively that the 15,000 men continued the fight, as stated in the text, long after the hour when Mr. Kinglake says they disappeared from the battle-field. The casualties of the 10,000 men under Pavloff, who came into action at 7.30, were somewhat greater, proportionately, than those of the first two columns. The losses of the reserve (10,000 men), which to a great extent was kept back out of the struggle, were proportionately much less. (P. Alabine, _Notes of the Expedition in 1853-5_ , published in the Russian language, at Viatka, 1861, gives the losses by Russian regiments.) ----- The enemy had secured a footing on the plateau of the Inkerman main spur, and the Guards Brigade, coming up at that instant, were launched against him, the Grenadiers in front, then the Scots Fusiliers, the Coldstream following a short distance in rear. The leading Battalion charged, and drove the Russians back to the crest; the next formed on its left, and Dawson prolonged the line to the right. “Thus the narrow strip of height on the beak of which arose the two-gun work [the Sandbag battery] was thinly edged by the _Tria juncta in uno_, ranged two deep: the Duke of Cambridge and General Bentinck in command.”[275] ----- Footnote 275: _Our Veterans, etc._, p. 287. ----- Many of the rifles at first missed fire, for the incessant rain had saturated everything; but by snapping off caps to dry the channel and by other means the arms were got to work.[276] The failure to use their weapons at this crisis caused great confusion, as may well be imagined, for there was a dense mass of Muscovite grey coats and flat caps in front, advancing against the Brigade. ----- Footnote 276: Some of the nipples had even to be unscrewed (Tower, _Diary_). ----- N^o 7. [Illustration: INKERMAN _about 8 A.M._ _This map has been drawn from_ Kinglake’s “Crimea” _by kind permission_. _The position of the troops has been slightly altered to suit the hour._ A.D. Innes & C^o. London. ]