Editing Battle of Inkerman (section)

===Assault===
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On 5 November 1854, the Russian 10th Division, under Lt. General {{ill|Fedor Ivanovich Soimonov (1800–1854)|ru|Соймонов, Фёдор Иванович (1800)|lt=F. I. Soymonov}}, launched a heavy attack on the allied right flank atop Home Hill east from the Russian position on Shell Hill.{{sfnp|Figes|2010|pp=257-259}}  The assault was made by two columns of 35,000 men and 134 field artillery guns{{sfnp|Figes|2010|p=257}} of the Russian 10th Division.  When combined with other Russian forces in the area, the Russian attacking force would form a formidable army of some 42,000 men.  The initial Russian assault was to be received by the British [[2nd Division (United Kingdom)|Second Division]] dug in on Home Hill with only 2,700 men and 12 guns.  Both Russian columns moved in a flanking fashion east towards the British. They hoped to overwhelm this portion of the Allied army before reinforcements could arrive.  The fog of the early morning hours aided the Russians by hiding their approach.{{sfnp|Figes|2010|p=258}} Not all the Russian troops could fit on the narrow 300-metre-wide heights of Shell Hill.{{sfnp|Figes|2010|p=257}} Accordingly, General Soymonov had followed Prince [[Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov|Alexander Menshikov]]'s directive and deployed some of his force around the Careenage Ravine.  Furthermore, on the night before the attack, Soymonov was ordered by General [[Peter Andreivich Dannenberg|Peter A. Dannenberg]] to send part of his force north and east to the Inkerman Bridge to cover the crossing of Russian troop reinforcements under Lt. General {{ill|P. Ya. Pavlov|ru|Павлов, Прокофий Яковлевич}}.{{sfnp|Figes|2010|p=257}} Thus, Soymonov could not effectively employ all of his troops in the attack.

When dawn broke, Soymonov attacked the British positions on Home Hill with 6,300 men from the Kolyvansky, Ekaterinburg and Tomsky regiments.{{sfnp|Figes|2010|p=259}}  Soymonov also had a further 9,000 in reserve. The British had strong pickets and had ample warning of the Russian attack despite the early morning fog. The pickets, some of them at company strength, engaged the Russians as they moved to attack. The firing in the valley also gave warning to the rest of the Second Division, who rushed to their defensive positions. [[De Lacy Evans]], commander of the British Second Division, had been injured in a fall from his horse so command of the Second Division was taken up by [[John Lysaght Pennefather|Major-General John Pennefather]], a highly aggressive officer. Pennefather did not know that he was facing a superior Russian force. Thus he abandoned Evans' plan of falling back to draw the Russians within range of the British field artillery which was hidden behind Home Hill.{{sfnp|Figes|2010|p=259}}  Instead, Pennefather ordered his 2,700 strong division to attack. When they did so, the Second Division faced some 15,300 Russian soldiers.  Russian guns bombarded Home Hill, but there were no troops on the crest at this point.