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Jack Archer

CHAPTER VII
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The Russians lost 45 officers killed and 101 wounded, 1762 men killed and 2720 wounded.

The Allied Army had 126 guns against 96 of the Russians; but the former, owing to the nature of the ground, played but a small part in the fight.
The whole of the loss fell upon a comparatively small number of the English regiments, and as the French had 9000 men in reserve who had not fired a shot, there was no season why the greater portion of the army, with all the cavalry, should not at once have followed on the track of the beaten Russians.

Had they done so, the war in the Crimea would have been over in three days.

That time, however, elapsed before a move was made.

The reason assigned was the necessity of caring for the wounded and burying the dead.


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